Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to the cultivation of land; agricultural.
- adjective Relating to or concerning the land and its ownership, cultivation, and tenure.
- noun A person who favors equitable distribution of land.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to lands, especially public lands; pertaining to the equal or uniform division of land.
- Growing in fields; wild: said of plants.
- Rural.
- noun 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.
- noun The land itself.
- noun An agrarian law.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One in favor of an equal division of landed property.
- noun rare An agrarian law.
- adjective Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands.
- adjective (Bot.) Wild; -- said of plants growing in the fields.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, or relating to, the
ownership ,tenure andcultivation ofland - adjective
Agricultural orrural . - noun A person who advocates the political interests of working farmers
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to rural matters
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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There is Marx's account of "primitive accumulation" in English agrarian history in the 17th and 18th centuries in Capital.
Marx's historical thinking Daniel Little 2008
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There is Marx's account of "primitive accumulation" in English agrarian history in the 17th and 18th centuries in Capital.
Archive 2008-10-01 Daniel Little 2008
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This book chronicles a high tech commune, where they were bound together not in agrarian pursuits but in a techno-cyber-public relations firm where they were always in contact remotely.
Digital Camera 2005
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While shifts in agrarian politics, economy, and society over the past two centuries have prompted certain adjustments, two patterns are striking in the local ceramic industry as women had, on a very small scale, begun to revive it in postwar Magude.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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Yes, the word agrarian sure does come up a lot around here.
Pilgrims & The Christian-Agrarian Exodus of 1620 Herrick Kimball 2005
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For example, we remember how it was practically a sacrilege to mention the word agrarian reform in the
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It was difficult for them to work together with Yugoslavia which was a believer in agrarian democracy.
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In the second novella, we’re told that “the accursed income tax” in agrarian, collectivized America is one percent of all a family buys or sells during a month, paid at the end of each month with produce or manufactured goods.
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In the second novella, we’re told that “the accursed income tax” in agrarian, collectivized America is one percent of all a family buys or sells during a month, paid at the end of each month with produce or manufactured goods.
The Sudden Curve: 2005
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In the second novella, we’re told that “the accursed income tax” in agrarian, collectivized America is one percent of all a family buys or sells during a month, paid at the end of each month with produce or manufactured goods.
vviddershins commented on the word agrarian
i just like the way this word comes out of the mouth.
it has a nice rhythm.
March 5, 2009