单词 | urban–rural |
释义 | > as lemmasurban–rural urban–rural adj. of or relating to both a city or town and the countryside; designating interaction or comparison between the two; cf. rural–urban adj. at rural adj. and n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town and country > [adjective] rural–urban1852 urban–rural1893 1893 Times 17 Nov. 6/4 In a new clause they should seek to extend many of the valuable powers of the Bill to what might be called urban-rural parishes. 1953 A. E. Smailes Geogr. of Towns ii. 33 There is no longer either socially or physically a simple clear-cut dichotomy of town and country; rather it is an urban-rural continuum. 2000 Econ. Affairs 20 60/3 There are papers on..urban-rural issues. < as lemmas |
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