semi-rural

A form of semirural — Moderately rural; transcending both urbanity and province; developing

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Meanings

adjectivesemi-rural (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of semirural.

    The station at Putney Bridge opened in time for the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race in March 1880. Fulham was semi-rural at this point.

    2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 80

Origin

From semi- + rural.

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Chicago

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