Agrarian
[ə'greərɪən] or [ə'ɡrɛrɪən]
Definition
(adj.) relating to rural matters; 'an agrarian (or agricultural) society'; 'farming communities' .
Editor: Madge--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) 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.
(a.) Wild; -- said of plants growing in the fields.
(n.) One in favor of an equal division of landed property.
(n.) An agrarian law.
Typist: Shirley
Definition
adj. relating to land or its management as in 'agrarian crime ' &c. applied esp. to Roman laws for the equal distribution of the public lands: rural.—n. Agrā′rianism an equal division of lands: a political movement in favour of interference with the ordinary conditions of private property in land.
Typist: Thaddeus
Examples
- There was more agrarian revolt in the north than in the south; the Steel Boys, and later the Peep-o'-Day Boys, were Ulster terrorists. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He had never thought of it before as an agrarian reform. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- That is an agrarian reform which means something. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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