agrarian
[uh-grair-ee-uh n]
- 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.
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- a person who favors the equal division of landed property and the advancement of agricultural groups.
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Origin of agrarian
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Contemporary Examples
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.
Historical Examples
Posnania was menaced by an agrarian strike, but a settlement has been reached.
The Paper Moneys of EuropeFrancis W. Hirst
The movement is politically nearly as strong in the agrarian districts as elsewhere.
SocialismJohn Spargo
He was an Agrarian, who wanted every man desirous to own a farm to have one.
The Agrarian question was regarded generally as one of the most urgent.
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2Henry Baerlein
The Czechs believe that Agrarian Reform should be the work of a generation.
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2Henry Baerlein
agrarian
- of or relating to land or its cultivation or to systems of dividing landed property
- of or relating to rural or agricultural matters
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- a person who favours the redistribution of landed property
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Word Origin
C16: from Latin agrārius, from ager field, land
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Word Origin and History for agrarian
adj.
1610s, "relating to the land," from Middle French loy agrarienne "agrarian law," from Latin Lex agraria, the Roman law for the division of conquered lands, from agrarius "of the land," from ager (genitive agri) "a field," from PIE *agro- (cf. Greek agros "field," Gothic akrs, Old English æcer "field;" see acre). Meaning "having to do with cultivated land" first recorded 1792.
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