rustication
rustication noun: residence in the country.
Noun
rustication (countable and uncountable, plural rustications)
- Residence in the country.
- The act or process of rusticating.
- The result of having been rusticated.
- "You don't think he'll rusticate us, or any thing of that sort?" said Tom, who had felt horrible twinges at the captain's picture of the effects of rustication on ordinary mortals.1859–1861, [Thomas Hughes], “The Captain’s Notions”, in Tom Brown at Oxford: […], part 1st, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1861, →OCLC, page 192
- The process of posting a person or relocating a unit from London (or a command HQ) to elsewhere in the country.
rustication meaning in Tamil and Bengali
rustication in Tamil
- நகரவழக்கறியாதவர், நாட்டுப்புறத்தவர், ஆடம்பரமில்லாதவர்
rustication in Bengali
- গ্রামাঞ্চলে বসবাস, গ্রামাঞ্চলে পাঠানোর কাজ, প্রক্রিয়া, গ্রামাঞ্চলে প্রেরিত হওয়ার ফলাফল
Forms of rustication
| plural | rustications |
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Origin of rustication
From rusticate + -ion.
Questions about rustication
- What does rustication mean?
- Rustication means residence in the country.
- What is rustication in Tamil?
- Rustication in Tamil is நகரவழக்கறியாதவர், நாட்டுப்புறத்தவர், ஆடம்பரமில்லாதவர். See Rustication meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is rustication?
- Rustication is a noun.
- What is the plural of rustication?
- The plural of rustication is rustications.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: rustication (page history and authors); rustication (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rustication (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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