Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ruralist

2 senses of ruralist

Sense 1
ruralist -- (an advocate of rural living)
       => advocate, advocator, proponent, exponent -- (a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea)

Sense 2
countryman, ruralist -- (a man who lives in the country and has country ways)
       => rustic -- (an unsophisticated country person)