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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Relating to or concerning the land and its ownership, cultivation, and tenure.
  2. adj. Relating to agricultural or rural matters.
  3. adj. Intended to further agricultural interests: agrarian lobbyists.
  4. n. A person who favors equitable distribution of land.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Relating to lands, especially public lands; pertaining to the equal or uniform division of land.
  2. Growing in fields; wild: said of plants.
  3. Rural.
  4. n. One who favors an equal division of property, especially landed property, among the inhabitants of a country, or a change in the tenure of land. Hence, sometimes applied to agitators accused of leveling tendencies or of hostile designs against the holders of property, as to certain political parties at different times in the United States.
  5. n. The land itself.
  6. n. An agrarian law.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Of, or relating to, the ownership, tenure and cultivation of land
  2. adj. Agricultural or rural.
  3. n. A person who advocates the political interests of working farmers

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands.
  2. adj. (Bot.) Wild; -- said of plants growing in the fields.
  3. n. One in favor of an equal division of landed property.
  4. n. rare An agrarian law.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. relating to rural matters

Etymologies

  1. From Middle French agrarien, from Latin agrarius ("of the land"), from stem of ager ("field") + -arius (Wiktionary)
  2. From Latin agrārius, from ager, agr-, field; see agro- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • vviddershins i just like the way this word comes out of the mouth.
    it has a nice rhythm. Mar 4, 2009

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