agrarian

[ uh-grair-ee-uhn ]

adjective

1. relating to land, land tenure, or the division of landed property:

   agrarian laws.

2. pertaining to the advancement of agricultural groups:

   an agrarian movement.

3. composed of or pertaining to farmers:

   an agrarian co-op.

4. rural; agricultural.
5. growing in fields; wild:

   an agrarian plant.

noun

1. a person who favors the equal division of landed property and the advancement of agricultural groups.

agrarian

/ əˈɡrɛərɪən /

adjective

1. of or relating to land or its cultivation or to systems of dividing landed property
2. of or relating to rural or agricultural matters

noun

1. a person who favours the redistribution of landed property

Derived Forms

• aˈgrarianism, noun

Other Words From

• 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of agrarian¹

1610–20; < Latin agrāri ( us ) ( agr- stem of ager field, acre + -ārius -ary ) + -an; agrestal

Word History and Origins

Origin of agrarian¹

C16: from Latin agrārius, from ager field, land

Example Sentences

Many factors ultimately undermined the first old agrarian Jeffersonian dream.

From The Daily Beast

It was a Southern-Midwestern radical-agrarian party that opposed fat-cat financial interests.

From The Daily Beast

And in Agrarian Justice, he proposed taxing the landed rich to provide grants to young people and pensions to the elderly.

From The Daily Beast

This policy would have put Roosevelt in the same general category of agrarian reform as Stalin and Mao Tse-tung.

From The Daily Beast

His strong advocacy of Jefferson's agrarian program gained him a reading audience of farmers as well as statesmen.

From Project Gutenberg

The movement was agrarian, not religious, though the Whiteboys were catholics, nor political.

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Next, I have explained the rise of the present Home Rule movement, and its dependence on agrarian agitation.

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Upon the deposition of Octavius the agrarian law of Gracchus was immediately passed by acclamation.

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Thus the great landowners were finally successful in destroying the effect of the agrarian legislation of Tiberius Gracchus.

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Related Words

• agricultural
• rural