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a·grar·i·an

(ə-grâr′ē-ən)

adj.

1. Relating to the cultivation of land; agricultural: an agrarian economy.

2. Relating to or concerning the land and its ownership, cultivation, and tenure: agrarian reform.

A person who favors equitable distribution of land.

[From Latin agrārius, relating to the land, from ager, agr-, field; see agro- in Indo-European roots.]

agrarian

(əˈɡrɛərɪən)

adj

1. (Agriculture) of or relating to land or its cultivation or to systems of dividing landed property

2. (Agriculture) of or relating to rural or agricultural matters

(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a person who favours the redistribution of landed property

[C16: from Latin agrārius, from ager field, land]

aˈgrarianism n

a•grar•i•an

(əˈgrɛər i ən)

adj.

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

2. pertaining to the promotion of agricultural interests: an agrarian movement.

3. composed of or pertaining to farmers: an agrarian co-op.

4. rural; agricultural.

5. a person who favors the equal division of landed property and the promotion of agricultural interests.

[1610–20; < Latin agrāri(us) (agr- s. of ager field, acre + -ārius -ary) + -an¹]

a•grar′i•an•ism, n.

agrarian

Being or belonging to a society based on cultivating crops.

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Adj.

agrarian - relating to rural matters; "an agrarian (or agricultural) society"; "farming communities"

farming, agricultural

rural - living in or characteristic of farming or country life; "rural people"; "large rural households"; "unpaved rural roads"; "an economy that is basically rural"

agrarian

adjective agricultural, country, land, farming, rural, rustic, agrestic a highly developed agrarian economy
industrial, urban

Translations

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agrario

agraire rural rustique

agrario agraria

agraragrarisk

agrarian

[əˈgrɛərɪən]

A. ADJ → agrario

B. CPD agrarian reform N → reforma f agraria
agrarian revolution N → revolución f agraria

agrarian

[əˈgrɛərɪən] adj [reform, economy, society] → agraire

agrarian

adj → Agrar-; agrarian reform → Agrarreform f; agrarian society → Agrargesellschaft f

agrarian

[əˈgrɛərɪən] adj → agrario/a

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Section II has made clear the relations of the Communists to the existing working-class parties, such as the Chartists in England and the Agrarian Reformers in America.

In Poland they support the party that insists on an agrarian revolution as the prime condition for national emancipation, that party which fomented the insurrection of Cracow in 1846.

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I saw they'd got to the agrarian laws of Caius Gracchus, and I wondered if they knew anything about the agrarian troubles in Ireland.

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In memory of her sorrows Demeter establishes the Eleusinian mysteries (which, however, were purely agrarian in origin).

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Now, gentlemen, in square-sail brigs and three-masted ships, well-nigh as large and stout as any that ever sailed out of your old Callao to far manilla; this lakeman, in the land-locked heart of our America, had yet been nurtured by all those agrarian freebooting impressions popularly connected with the open ocean.

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Opposition and questions about the qualifications of newly-appointed Agrarian Reform Secretary John Castriciones have stalled his confirmation by the powerful Commission on Appointments (CA).

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DAR simplifies legal processes

The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) announced on Thursday the distribution of certificates of land ownership award (CLOA) to 113 farmers from Tarlac province.

113 landless farmers from Tarlac receive CLOAs from government

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Byashim Annagurbanov has been elected chairman of the Central Council of the Agrarian Party of Turkmenistan, the political organization said in a message on January 15.

Chairman of Turkmen Agrarian Party elected

Charlotte Scott's rich and intricately thought Shakespeare's Nature: From Cultivation to Culture undertakes what would be, in a less nuanced book, an impossible task: parsing the cultural implications of agrarian language and practice as adumbrated in Shakespeare's lyric and dramatic works.