agrarian
relating to land, land tenure, or the division of landed property: agrarian laws.
pertaining to the advancement of agricultural groups: an agrarian movement.
composed of or pertaining to farmers: an agrarian co-op.
rural; agricultural.
growing in fields; wild: an agrarian plant.
a person who favors the equal division of landed property and the advancement of agricultural groups.
Origin of agrarian
1Other words from agrarian
- 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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How to use agrarian in a sentence
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.
What went so wrong with covid in India? Everything. | Sonia Faleiro | July 5, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewZapata, for his part, wanted radical agrarian reforms that Carranza was unwilling to support.
Along the border, echoes of revolution and Pancho Villa | Matthew Simpson | July 2, 2021 | Washington PostMost of these tours are determinedly off-track, lingering in agrarian backcountry that no other tour groups cover.
In East Africa, mountain gorillas and a new paradigm for wildlife travel | Henry Wismayer | April 23, 2021 | Washington PostSo, let’s showcase some game settings for travelers of all types, from the agrarian enthusiast to the hair-on-fire adrenaline junkie.
Five sensational vacation destinations from the virtual worlds of video games | Shelly Tan, Elise Favis, Gene Park, Armand Emamdjomeh | February 25, 2021 | Washington PostYou can find all the tools, seeds and machinery needed to fulfill your agrarian adventures.
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Many factors ultimately undermined the first old agrarian Jeffersonian dream.
In the Future We'll All Be Renters: America's Disappearing Middle Class | Joel Kotkin | August 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt 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.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. TorpeyThe movement was agrarian, not religious, though the Whiteboys were catholics, nor political.
The Political History of England - Vol. X. | William HuntNext, I have explained the rise of the present Home Rule movement, and its dependence on agrarian agitation.
Is Ulster Right? | AnonymousUpon the deposition of Octavius the agrarian law of Gracchus was immediately passed by acclamation.
The Two Great Republics: Rome and the United States | James Hamilton LewisThus the great landowners were finally successful in destroying the effect of the agrarian legislation of Tiberius Gracchus.
The Two Great Republics: Rome and the United States | James Hamilton Lewis
British Dictionary definitions for agrarian
/ (əˈɡrɛərɪən) /
of or relating to land or its cultivation or to systems of dividing landed property
of or relating to rural or agricultural matters
a person who favours the redistribution of landed property
Origin of agrarian
1Derived forms of agrarian
- agrarianism, noun
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