ruralist
noun
ruralist is a noun meaning “One who exhibits characteristics or qualities of rural life, or ruralism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-U-R-A-L-I-S-T, and it appears about once in every 89 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of ruralist is ruralists.
What does ruralist mean?
noun
- 1
One who exhibits characteristics or qualities of rural life, or ruralism.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of ruralist
- ruralists plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ruralist?
Ruralist appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does ruralist come from?
From rural + -ist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).