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agrarian

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Adjective, Noun
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CIDE DICTIONARY

agrariana. [L. agrarius, fr. ager field.].
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
    "His Grace's landed possessions are irresistibly inviting to an agrarian experiment."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Wild; -- said of plants growing in the fields.  [1913 Webster]
agrariann. 
  •  One in favor of an equal division of landed property.  [1913 Webster]
  •  An agrarian law.  [1913 Webster]
    "An equal agrarian is perpetual law."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

agrarian, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of or relating to the land or its cultivation.
2 relating to landed property.
--n. a person who advocates a redistribution of landed property.

Etymology
L agrarius f. ager agri field

THESAURUS

agrarian

Arcadian, agrestic, agricultural, agronomic, arable, bucolic, country, farm, farming, geoponic, lowland, native, natural, pastoral, provincial, rural, rustic, uncultivated, undomesticated, upland

ROGET THESAURUS

agrarian

Agriculture

N agriculture, cultivation, husbandry, farming, georgics, geoponics, tillage, agronomy, gardening, spade husbandry, vintage, horticulture, arboriculture, floriculture, landscape gardening, viticulture, husbandman, horticulturist, gardener, florist, agricultor, agriculturist, yeoman, farmer, cultivator, tiller of the soil, woodcutter, backwoodsman, granger, habitat, vigneron, viticulturist, Triptolemus, field, meadow, garden, botanic garden, winter garden, ornamental garden, flower garden, kitchen garden, market garden, hop garden, nursery, green house, hot house, conservatory, bed, border, seed plot, grassplot, grassplat, lawn, park, parterre, shrubbery, plantation, avenue, arboretum, pinery, pinetum, orchard, vineyard, vinery, orangery, farm, agricultural, agrarian, agrestic, arable, predial, rural, rustic, country, horticultural.


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