agrarian

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What have the Ulster people done which can compare with this opposition to a measure that has admittedly effected a beneficial revolution in Irish agrarian life?

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  1. adjective Relating to or concerning the land and its ownership, cultivation, and tenure.
  2. adjective Relating to agricultural or rural matters.
  3. adjective Intended to further agricultural interests: agrarian lobbyists.

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  • The national executive will adopt three important resolutions on economic, political and agrarian issues. —  dailyindia.com News Feed
  • Our landlady, who was as physically imposing as her husband, was another version of the Italian immigrant women of my grandmother's generation - agrarian powerhouses who could do anything and whose trumpetlike voices could pierce stone walls. —  Leaning Straight Up
  • Our landlady, who was as physically imposing as her husband, was an all-American version of the Italian immigrant women of my grandmother's generation -- agrarian powerhouses who could do anything and whose trumpetlike voices could pierce stone walls. —  redblueamerica.com blogs
  • We agrarian-minded souls find ourselves in different situations. —  The Deliberate Agrarian
  • The rest of us find ourselves stuck in a sort of industrial-agrarian twilight zone, carefully assessing our limited options with limited resources as we look for a responsible pathway that will take us into a deeper and purer agrarianism. —  The Deliberate Agrarian
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. From Latin agrārius, from ager, agr-, field; see agro- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin agrarius, from ager, field, country, land, = English acre, q. v.; agrariæ leges, laws relating to the division of the public lands among the poorer citizens; agrarii, n. plural, those who favored such laws.
 

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