Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ruralize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ru-ral-ize
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To make rural; to give a rural character to (something or someone).

Transitive verb

verb

To become rural; to take up residence or spend time in the country.

Intransitive verb

Example Sentences

"the curling cloud / Of city smoke, by distance ruralised"
"This tardy favorite of fortune […] thoroughly ruralized from head to foot, proceeded to escort us up the hill behind his house."
"[…] the quiet bachelor house had its best rooms on the big garden, which seemed to advance into them through their wide windows and ruralize their dullness."
"But it is also a collection of villages, a ruralized metropolis where people live by their wits and devices, cut off from the authorities, the law and often each other."
"c. 1822, Charles Lamb, undated letter to John Howard Payne in The Letter of Charles Lamb, 1814-1825, Boston: The Bibliophile Society, Volume 4, pp. 197-198, I shall certainly attend your Farce, if in town; but as ’t is possible I shall ruralize this week, I will have no orders of you till next week."
"[…] Letitia, who, except one jaunt to Margate, had never been out of the sound of Bow-bells, that she might ruralise after the fashion of the poets, sit under trees, and gather roses all day long;"

Etymology

From rural + -ize.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: rural

Usage

Inflected Forms

ruralizes (present, singular) ruralizing (participle, present) ruralized (participle, past) ruralized (past) ruralise (alternative)

Derived Forms

deruralize ruralization

Synonyms

rusticate

Questions

What does ruralize mean?: To make rural; to give a rural character to (something or someone).
Where does ruralize come from?: From rural + -ize.

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