Meaning & use
rural lifestylers
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Meaning
nounplural
People who move from a city to the countryside to live a simpler, more self-sufficient life, often keeping animals or growing food.
Grammar: Always plural; takes a plural verb, as in 'Rural lifestylers often keep chickens.'
Patterns
- rural lifestylers in a region
- a community of rural lifestylers
The village has attracted many rural lifestylers who want to grow their own vegetables.
Rural lifestylers often sell homemade jam and eggs at the local market.
Some rural lifestylers move back to the city after a few years.
Common combinations
- attract rural lifestylers
- Cheap land has attracted rural lifestylers to the area.
- a wave of rural lifestylers
- A wave of rural lifestylers arrived in the 1970s.
- rural lifestylers move to
- Many rural lifestylers move to remote valleys.
Synonyms and how they differ
- back-to-the-landers
- This is a broader term for anyone who returns to a rural way of life, not necessarily a permanent move.
- homesteaders
- Homesteaders focus on settling and farming land, while rural lifestylers emphasize a chosen lifestyle.
Opposites
Word family
- rural lifestyle noun
- The way of life that rural lifestylers choose.
Commonly confused: rural lifestylers or rural life?
rural lifestylers vs rural life
Rural life refers to life in the countryside in general; rural lifestylers specifically refers to the people who choose it.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'rural lifestylers' correctly?
Choose one answer.
'Rural lifestylers' is a plural noun phrase, so it takes a plural verb and refers to multiple people. Option C uses it correctly. Option D is wrong because the singular 'a' cannot go with a plural noun.
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