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Definition of Rurban

1. partially rural and urban [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rurban

Literary usage of Rurban

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Rural Life by Charles Josiah Galpin (1918)
"The banker is a rurban agent. The farmer is shipper by express and freight. ... The principal and faculty are rurban agents of education. ..."

2. The Little Town: Especially in Its Rural Relationships by Harlan Paul Douglass (1919)
""rurban" Extension of the Ideal. The Department of Education of the state ... This is the first definitely "rurban" re-statement of the social centre idea ..."

3. The Little Town: Especially in Its Rural Relationships by Harlan Paul Douglass (1919)
""rurban" Extension of the Ideal. The Department of Education of the state ... This is the first definitely "rurban" re-statement of the social centre idea ..."

4. The Little Town: Especially in Its Rural Relationships by Harlan Paul Douglass (1919)
""rurban" Extension of the Ideal. The Department of Education of the state ... This is the first definitely "rurban" re-statement of the social centre idea ..."

5. Rural Sociology by John Morris Gillette (1922)
"Even in the case of the "rurban," or town-country community, where the center is well-defined, the boundaries are ill-defined and variable, since farmers ..."

6. Child Welfare in Kentucky: An Inquiry by the National Child Labor Committee by National Child Labor Committee (U.S.), Edward Nicholas Clopper, Kentucky Child Labor Association, Kentucky State Board of Health (1919)
"The rurban philosophy, as applied to recreation, must not be taken to mean a denial of the right and duty of country people to minister in an organized way ..."

7. Balancing Country Life by County Work Dept, International Committee (1917)
"BALANCING COUNTRY LIFE the population, strictly speaking, is neither rural nor urban, but "rurban." The community of most countrysides finds its center in ..."

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