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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 rus·tic /ˈrʌstɪk/
 鄉下人,村夫,農民(a.)鄉村的,純樸的,手工粗糙的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Rus·tic a.
 1. Of or pertaining to the country; rural; as, the rustic gods of antiquity.  Rustic lays.”
 And many a holy text around she strews,
 That teach the rustic moralist to die.   --Gray.
    She had a rustic, woodland air.   --Wordsworth.
 2. Rude; awkward; rough; unpolished; as, rustic manners. “A rustic muse.”
 3. Coarse; plain; simple; as, a rustic entertainment; rustic dress.
 4. Simple; artless; unadorned; unaffected.
 Rustic moth Zool., any moth belonging to Agrotis and allied genera. Their larvae are called cutworms. See Cutworm.
 Rustic work. (a) Arch. Cut stone facing which has the joints worked with grooves or channels, the face of each block projecting beyond the joint, so that the joints are very conspicuous. (b) Arch. & Woodwork Summer houses, or furniture for summer houses, etc., made of rough limbs of trees fancifully arranged.
 Syn: -- Rural; rude; unpolished; inelegant; untaught; awkward; rough;  coarse; plain; unadorned; simple; artless; honest. See Rural.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Rus·tic, n.
 1. An inhabitant of the country, especially one who is rude, coarse, or dull; a clown.
    Hence to your fields, you rustics! hence, away.   --Pope.
 2. A rural person having a natural simplicity of character or manners; an artless, unaffected person. [Poetic]
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 rustic
      adj 1: characteristic of rural life; "countrified clothes"; "rustic
             awkwardness" [syn: countrified, countryfied]
      2: awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys";
         "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of
         Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists" [syn: bumpkinly,
          hick, unsophisticated]
      3: used of idealized country life; "a country life of arcadian
         contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its
         pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility" [syn: arcadian,
         bucolic, pastoral]
      4: characteristic of the fields or country; "agrestic
         simplicity"; "rustic stone walls" [syn: agrestic]
      n : an unsophisticated country person