🌳 To live simply 🚪 To send away 🪨 To make rough 🎓 To suspend (UK)

to rusticate

1 9.3

To live in the countryside and live simply

verb
/ˈrʌstɪˌkeɪt/

: vivir en el campo

He always dreamed of rusticating on a farm, surrounded by nature and far from city life.

Examples

To rusticate.

Bedlam (1946)
After living in the city for years, she decided to rusticate in the peaceful countryside.
Chris, you wasn't cut out to marry no Tidewater lady and just rusticate.

Unconquered (1947)
They love to rusticate during the summer, enjoying the fresh air and simple life away from the hustle and bustle.

Antonyms

to urbanize

1 5.3

To make a place more like a city by building more houses, roads, shops, and services

Surface Forms

rusticate infinitive

rusticated past

rusticated past participle

rusticating present participle

rusticates third person singular

Morphology

rusticate = rustic (transparent) = rustic + ate

The intransitive sense 'to live in the countryside' is a natural extension of 'become rustic' and follows productive English derivation.

Etymology

Rusticate comes from the Latin root rus meaning 'country' and the word rustic meaning 'rural' or 'simple'. To rusticate in this sense is simply to go and live in the countryside and adopt a quiet, country way of life.