Country
Country noun - An area outside of cities and towns.
Usage example: his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country
Rural area is a synonym for country. In some cases you can use "Rural area" instead a noun "Country".
Nearby Word: countryside
Rural area
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- land and country
- land and rural area
- hinterland and country
- hinterland and rural area
- backwoods and country
- backwoods and rural area
- wilderness and country
- wilderness and rural area
- countryside and country
- countryside and rural area
- bush and country
- bush and rural area
- town and country
- town and rural area
Both terms in one sentence
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Alice is a sweet Country Mouse who grew up in a sparsely-populated rural area, either on a farm or simply a small town in the middle of nowhere.
Source: The City vs. the Country - On one end of the country, you have Homestead, a very rural area stuck in Medieval Stasis.
Source: Decade Dissonance - No Communities Were Harmed: The episode takes place in a rural area of Europe, but the country or nationality of its citizens is never specified.
Cite this Source
Rural area and Country. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 02, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/country/rural_area
Country & Rural area. N.p., 2016. Web. 02 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/country/rural_area>.
Rural area or Country. 2016. Accessed August 02, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/country/rural_area.
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