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semi-rural

semi-rural is the alternative form of semirural.

Meaning of semirural

Adjective

semirural (not comparable)

  1. Moderately rural; transcending both urbanity and province; developing
    • In Elephant Butte, the couple's main criteria --temperate climate, a semirural location and affordability -- were met.2009 January 2, Keith Mulvihill, “Blue Skies, a Small Town and a Big Lake”, in New York Times

Origin of semi-rural

From semi- + rural.

Questions about semi-rural

What is semi-rural the alternative form of?
Semi-rural is the alternative form of semirural.

Words near semi-rural in the dictionary

  1. semi-responsible
  2. semi-retirement
  3. semi-retirements
  4. semi-rigid
  5. semi-riparian
  6. semi-rural
  7. Semi-Saxon
  8. semi-sexist
  9. semi-shipper
  10. semi-shippers
  11. semi-single

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Adapted from Wiktionary: semi-rural (page history and authors); semirural (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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