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ruralisation

ruralisation is the alternative form of ruralization.

Meaning of ruralization

Noun

ruralization (usually uncountable, plural ruralizations)

  1. (usually) the process of making rural.
  2. (usually) the change in a country or region when its population migrates from urban to rural areas
  3. (usually) the process of the formation of villages and the decline of big cities
  4. (usually) the proportion of a region's population that live in villages and small communities; the rate at which this proportion is growing

Antonyms of ruralisation

Origin of ruralisation

From rural + -isation.

Questions about ruralisation

What is ruralisation the alternative form of?
Ruralisation is the alternative form of ruralization.

Words near ruralisation in the dictionary

  1. Rural Retreat
  2. rural sanitary district
  3. rural sanitary districts
  4. rural-type settlement
  5. Rurales
  6. ruralisation
  7. ruralise
  8. ruralised
  9. ruralises
  10. ruralish
  11. ruralising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ruralisation (page history and authors); ruralization (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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