MEANING
Having a mixture of rural and more developed or urban characteristics.
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Words that belong together
- a semi-rural district
- a semi-rural setting
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The semi-rural district mixed allotments with small factories.
They reached a semi-rural setting where streetlights ended before the houses did.
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Word forms
- Base
- semi-rural
Usage notes
Primary category: setting. Forms: Relational or privative adjective; comparative/superlative normally not applicable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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