agr-

¹

1. variant of agro- or agri- before a vowel.

agr.

²

abbreviation for

1. agricultural.
2. agriculture.

agr.

¹

abbreviation for

1. agricultural
2. agriculture

AGR

²

abbreviation for

1. advanced gas-cooled reactor

Example Sentences

VW's former Kaluga factory, which has annual production capacity of 225,000 vehicles, was renamed AGR Automotive by its new owner.

From Reuters

Chery and AGR Automotive declined to comment.

From Reuters

Under current plans, even with the extensions agreed today, the country's entire fleet of AGR reactors is due to close by 2028.

From BBC

Goetz and Uganda-based AGR are key players in Congo’s illicit gold trade, which is worth hundreds of millions of dollars each year and is the largest source of revenue for armed groups in the country, the Treasury said Thursday in an emailed statement.

From Washington Post

Goetz, AGR and eight other linked companies will have their U.S.-based assets blocked under the sanctions, it said.

From Washington Post

Words That Use agr-

What does agr- mean?

Agr– is a combining form used like a prefix meaning “field,” “soil,” or “crop production.” It is very occasionally used in technical terms, especially in agriculture.

Agr– is a variant of agro– (from Greek agrós, “tilled land”) or agri– (extracted from agriculture and rooted in the Latin ager, “field”), which loses their –o– or –i-, respectively, when combined with words or word elements beginning with vowels.

Want to know more? Read our Words That Use articles for agro– and agri–.

Examples of agr-

One example of a term that features the form agr– is agrestal, “of or relating to plants growing wild in fields and uncultivated areas.” Agrestal comes from Latin agrestis, which uses the equivalent of agr– in that language.

The form agr– means “field,” as we have seen. The –estal part of the word altogether means “belonging to” or “pertaining to.” Agrestal literally translates to “belonging to the field.”

What are some words that use the equivalent of the combining form agr– in Latin?

• agrarian
• agrarianism
• agrestic

What are some other forms that agr– may be commonly confused with?

• ag-
• aer-
• aero-

Not every word that begins with the exact letters agr-, such as agria and agrodolce, is necessarily using the combining form agr– to denote “field.” Learn why agrodolce means “sweet-and-sour” at our entry for the word.

Break it down!

The word agrarian is an adjective. Given the meaning of agr-, what does agrarian mean?