The adjective bucolic is used to describe things that are related to or characteristic of rural or country life.
An idyll is a place or situation that is extremely pleasant, peaceful, and has no problems.
A metropolitan area contains a very large city.
A pastoral environment is rural, peaceful, simple, and natural.
A rustic setting is rural or placed in the country.
If you behave in an urbane way, you are behaving in a polite, refined, and civilized fashion in social situations.
A yokel is uneducated, naive, and unsophisticated; they do not know much about modern life or ideas because they sequester themselves in a rural setting.
Adj.
agrarian
uh-GRAIR-ee-uhn
Context
Priscilla’s passion for an agrarian life led her to work in the rich farmland of the Midwest where she had grown up. Priscilla grew up participating in daily agrarian tasks that taught her how to take care of the land, the crops, and the animals. For her agriculturally based family, a love for the land that fed them was the perfect agrarian life that touched all that they did and shared.
Quiz:Try again!
What does someone who prefers an agrarian lifestyle like?
They like making environmentally friendly choices.
They like living on a farm in the country.
They like eating vegetables and grains but no meat.
Agnes Sends Ian to Ag School Intelligent Ian got the rare chance to attend the top-rated agricultural school in the nation because his rich Aunt Agnes wanted him cultured and well-versed in organic agrarian production.
Examples
As leading agrarian expert Chen Xiwen pointed out, low living standards in the countryside not only dampened enthusiasm for farming but also hurt Beijing’s plans to boost the economy by stimulating domestic consumption.
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CNN
[Steve] Jobs makes a strange analogy to the shift from trucks to cars as America was transformed from an agrarian society to one that worked mostly in cities.
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Fortune
Most of us know the enduring myth of America’s great agrarian age by heart: Huck Finn fishes in yonder lake, berry pies cool on a window ledge.
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The Christian Science Monitor
Agrarian “pertains to the cultivation of fields or the country.”
Word Theater
Food, Inc. Images of agrarian America.
The panel shows a small video clip of either the word in actual use or a scene that represents the meaning of a word. This not only breaks up the monotony of studying words but also provides another avenue to strengthen word meaning. Enjoy!
