semirural
semirural adjective: moderately rural; transcending both urbanity and province; developing.
Adjective
semirural (not comparable)
- 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
- The body was found May 24 on the 11000 block of Dublin Canyon Road, a semirural area on the outskirts of the city.2012, Henry K. Lee, San Francisco Chronicle, June 6, 2012, Sketches of Pleasanton trash-can victim released, link
Forms of semirural
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Origin of semirural
From semi- + rural.
Words that rhyme with semirural
- plural
- anural
- crural
- epidural
- epipleural
- extramural
- intramural
- jural
- mural
- neural
- pleural
- bronchopleural
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- caesural
- caricatural
- cesural
- commissural
- cynosural
- duoplural
- dural
- extradural
- extrapleural
- interpleural
- intradural
- intrapleural
- juxtapleural
- macrural
- myodural
- myoneural
- nomenclatural
- nonepidural
- nonneural
- nonrural
- peridural
- photomural
- postdural
- procural
- rural
- sensorineural
- splanchnopleural
- sternopleural
- subdural
- subpleural
- superplural
- sural
- transdural
- transpleural
- Ural
- zygopleural
Questions about semirural
- What does semirural mean?
- Semirural means moderately rural; transcending both urbanity and province; developing.
- What part of speech is semirural?
- Semirural is an adjective.
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