Rural communities often depend on groundwater wells because municipal water systems rarely extend beyond town limits.
农村社区常依赖地下水井，因为市政供水系统很少延伸到城镇边界之外。
A linguist studying an endangered language found that fluent speakers under the age of 40 could name only about half as many traditional plant species in the language as fluent speakers over 60, even though both groups had grown up in the same rural region.
From a Inferences question · Information and Ideas
A civil engineer claims that adding rumble strips along a rural highway's shoulder reduced the number of run-off-road accidents specifically caused by driver drowsiness.
From a Command of Evidence: Textual question · Information and Ideas
- The movement also trained rural women in forestry, beekeeping, and other environmentally sustainable trades.
From a Rhetorical Synthesis question · Expression of Ideas
Which choice best defines “rural”?
B — Countryside. “rural” means countryside.
Which word means “countryside”?
B — rural. “rural” means countryside.
rural — countryside. In Chinese: 农村的，田园的.
rural is pronounced /ˈrʊrəl/.
Rural communities often depend on groundwater wells because municipal water systems rarely extend beyond town limits. (农村社区常依赖地下水井，因为市政供水系统很少延伸到城镇边界之外。)
pastoral, bucolic, agrarian — all close in meaning to rural (countryside).
urban, metropolitan — each the opposite of rural (countryside).
Yes. rural is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.
rural(countryside)