Meaning of AGRARIAN
Pronunciation: | | u'grehreeun
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| Definition: | | [adj] "an agrarian (or agricultural) society"; "farming communities" |
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| Synonyms: | | agricultural, farming(a), rural |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\A*gra"ri*an\, a. [L. agrarius, fr. ager field.]
1. Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp.,
relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as,
the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered
and other public lands among citizens.
His Grace's landed possessions are irresistibly
inviting to an agrarian experiment. --Burke.
2. (Bot.) Wild; -- said of plants growing in the fields.
\A*gra"ri*an\, n.
1. One in favor of an equal division of landed property.
2. An agrarian law. [R.]
An equal agrarian is perpetual law. --Harrington.
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| Related Terms: | | agrestic, agricultural, agronomic, arable, Arcadian, bucolic, country, farm, farming, geoponic, lowland, native, natural, pastoral, provincial, rural, rustic, uncultivated, undomesticated, upland |
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