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ruralise

ruralise is the alternative spelling of ruralize.

Meaning of ruralize

Verb

ruralize (third-person singular simple present ruralizes, present participle ruralizing, simple past and past participle ruralized)

  1. (transitive) To make rural; to give a rural character to (something or someone).
    • the curling cloud / Of city smoke, by distance ruralised1799, William Wordsworth, The Prelude, London: Moxon, published 1850, Book 1, Introduction, p. 7
  2. (intransitive) To become rural; to take up residence or spend time in the country.
    • 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.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
    Synonyms:
    rusticate

Forms of ruralise

third-person singular presentruralises
present participleruralising
past participleruralised
pastruralised

Words formed from ruralise

Questions about ruralise

What is ruralise the alternative spelling of?
Ruralise is the alternative spelling of ruralize.

Words near ruralise in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ruralise (page history and authors); ruralize (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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