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ruralization

ruralization noun: the process of making rural.

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 ruralization

Forms of ruralization

pluralruralizations
alternative formruralisation

Origin of ruralization

From rural + -ization.

Words formed from ruralization

Questions about ruralization

What does ruralization mean?
Ruralization means the process of making rural.
What part of speech is ruralization?
Ruralization is a noun.
What is the plural of ruralization?
The plural of ruralization is ruralizations.

Words near ruralization in the dictionary

  1. ruralists
  2. ruralite
  3. ruralites
  4. ruralities
  5. rurality
  6. ruralization
  7. ruralizations
  8. ruralize
  9. ruralized
  10. ruralizes
  11. ruralizing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: 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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