rustication
noun
rustication is a noun meaning “Residence in the country” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-U-S-T-I-C-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 39 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of rustication is rustications.
What does rustication mean?
noun
- 1
Residence in the country.
- 2
The act or process of rusticating.
- 3
The result of having been rusticated.
- 4
UKThe process of posting a person or relocating a unit from London (or a command HQ) to elsewhere in the country.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce rustication?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Neøn-rustication.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of rustication
- rustications plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is rustication?
Rustication appears about once in every 39 million words in written English, the 191,932nd 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 rustication come from?
From rusticate + -ion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).