different between untaught vs rural

English

Etymology

un- +? taught

Adjective

untaught (comparative more untaught, superlative most untaught)

1. Not taught; uneducated.
   • c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:

     My ?coles are not for unthriftes untaught,
     For frantick faitours half mad and half ?traught;
     But my learning is of another degree
     To taunt theim like liddrons, lewde as thei bee.

   • 2005, Christine Alexander, Juliet McMaster, The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf (page 58)

     The gazing, the spying, and the ability to divine the eternal in the vivid manifestations of nature, here attributed to the young child, seem to be realised in this relatively untaught child of the woods of Oregon.

2. (not comparable) Not taught; not conveyed by means of instruction.
   • 1937, Manly Wade Wellman, School for the Unspeakable

     What they used to teach here
     Now goes untaught.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:ignorant

English

Etymology

From Old French rural, from Latin r?r?lis (“rural”), from r?s (“countryside”) + -?lis.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?????l/, /????l/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??????l/, /??????l/
• Hyphenation: ru?ral

Adjective

rural (comparative more rural, superlative most rural)

1. Relating to the countryside or to agriculture.

   Antonyms: urban, suburban

Synonyms

• campestral
• landly (nonstandard)

Derived terms

Related terms

• perirural
• ruralistic

Translations

Noun

rural (plural rurals)

1. (obsolete) A person from the countryside; a rustic.

See also

• country

Anagrams

• urlar

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin r?r?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ru??al/

Adjective

rural (masculine and feminine plural rurals)

1. rural

   Antonym: urbà

Further reading

• “rural” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “rural” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “rural” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “rural” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Old French rural, a borrowing from Latin r?r?lis (“rural”), from r?s (“countryside”) + -?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?y.?al/

Adjective

rural (feminine singular rurale, masculine plural ruraux, feminine plural rurales)

1. rural

   Synonym: champêtre

   Antonym: urbain

Related terms

• rustique
• rustre

Further reading

• “rural” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology

From Latin r?r?lis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

rural m or f (plural rurais)

1. rural

   Antonym: urbano

Further reading

• “rural” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u??a?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

rural (comparative ruraler, superlative am ruralsten)

1. (dated, learned) rural

Declension

Synonyms

• ländlich

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin ruralis.

Adjective

rural (neuter singular ruralt, definite singular and plural rurale)

1. rural

Synonyms

• landlig

References

• “rural” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin ruralis

Adjective

rural (neuter singular ruralt, definite singular and plural rurale)

1. rural

Synonyms

• landleg

References

• “rural” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin r?r?lis (“rural”), from r?s (“countryside”) + -?lis.

Adjective

rural m (oblique and nominative feminine singular rurale)

1. rural

Descendants

• ? English: rural
• French: rural

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ry?ral/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

rural

1. rural

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin r?r?lis (“rural”), from r?s (“countryside”) + -?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?u.??aw/
• Hyphenation: ru?ral

Adjective

rural m or f (plural rurais, comparable)

1. rural

Romanian

Etymology

From French rural

Adjective

rural m or n (feminine singular rural?, masculine plural rurali, feminine and neuter plural rurale)

1. rural

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin r?r?lis (“rural”), from r?s (“countryside”) + -?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ru??al/, [ru??al]
• Hyphenation: ru?ral
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

rural (plural rurales)

1. rural

   Antonym: urbano

Derived terms

Further reading

• “rural” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.