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agrarian

[ uh-grair-ee-uhn ]

adjective

  1. relating to land, land tenure, or the division of landed property:

    agrarian laws.

  2. pertaining to the advancement of agricultural groups:

    an agrarian movement.

  3. composed of or pertaining to farmers:

    an agrarian co-op.

  4. rural; agricultural.
  5. growing in fields; wild:

    an agrarian plant.



noun

  1. a person who favors the equal division of landed property and the advancement of agricultural groups.

agrarian

/ əˈɡrɛərɪən /

adjective

  1. of or relating to land or its cultivation or to systems of dividing landed property
  2. of or relating to rural or agricultural matters


noun

  1. a person who favours the redistribution of landed property

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Derived Forms

  • aˈgrarianism, noun

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Other Words From

  • a·grari·an·ly adverb
  • nona·grari·an adjective noun
  • proa·grari·an adjective
  • super·a·grari·an adjective
  • una·grari·an adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of agrarian1

1610–20; < Latin agrāri ( us ) ( agr- stem of ager field, acre + -ārius -ary ) + -an; agrestal

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Word History and Origins

Origin of agrarian1

C16: from Latin agrārius, from ager field, land

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Example Sentences

In February Salunke, the public health expert, was working in an agrarian district in the western state of Maharashtra when he noticed that the virus was transmitting “much faster” than before.

Zapata, for his part, wanted radical agrarian reforms that Carranza was unwilling to support.

Most of these tours are determinedly off-track, lingering in agrarian backcountry that no other tour groups cover.

So, let’s showcase some game settings for travelers of all types, from the agrarian enthusiast to the hair-on-fire adrenaline junkie.

You can find all the tools, seeds and machinery needed to fulfill your agrarian adventures.

Many factors ultimately undermined the first old agrarian Jeffersonian dream.

It was a Southern-Midwestern radical-agrarian party that opposed fat-cat financial interests.

And in Agrarian Justice, he proposed taxing the landed rich to provide grants to young people and pensions to the elderly.

This policy would have put Roosevelt in the same general category of agrarian reform as Stalin and Mao Tse-tung.

His strong advocacy of Jefferson's agrarian program gained him a reading audience of farmers as well as statesmen.

The movement was agrarian, not religious, though the Whiteboys were catholics, nor political.

Next, I have explained the rise of the present Home Rule movement, and its dependence on agrarian agitation.

Upon the deposition of Octavius the agrarian law of Gracchus was immediately passed by acclamation.

Thus the great landowners were finally successful in destroying the effect of the agrarian legislation of Tiberius Gracchus.

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