rustic meaning
EN
[ˈrʌstɪk] [-ʌstɪk] 
UK US WRustic
- Rustic can refer to:
- rural
- pastoral
- In zoology:
- Rustic moths, various noctuid moths of subfamilies Hadeninae and Noctuinae, including
- The Rustic, (Hoplodrina blanda, Hadeninae)
- The Rustic (Cupha erymanthis), a brush-footed butterfly
- Rustic Sphinx (Manduca rustica), a hawkmoth
- In geography:
- Rustic, Toronto, a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- In architecture:
- Rustication (architecture), a masonry technique mainly employed in Renaissance architecture
- Rustic architecture, an informal architectural style in the United States and Canada with several variations
- NounPLrusticsSUF-tic
- A (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.
- A (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.
- AdjectiveCOMmore rusticSUPmost rustic
- Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
- Unfinished or roughly finished.
- rustic manners
- Crude, rough.
- rustic country where the sheep and cattle roamed freely
- Simple; artless; unaffected.
- Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.
- Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Why do I send this rustic madrigal, / That may thy tuneful ear unseason quite? — Spenser.
- As Paban sings, he twangs a khomok hand drum or thunders away at the dubki, a sort of rustic tambourine.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of rustic in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Adjectives
- en rustication
- en rusticate
- en rustics
- en rustick
- en rustical
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "rustic" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.