agrarian
2
6.3
- noun
- /əˈɡrɛəriən/
:
agricultor
- Cherokee became skilled agrarians; many moved into brick homes with fine china, cloth, and silver; some, we should note, even built plantations and took slaves.
- societies from agrarian
- shift from agrarian
Examples
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Through time, as societies evolve from agrarian to industrial and information-based economies, the landscape mirrors accompanying shifts in how people obtain food, what they eat, and where they work.
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That's because in the long run, the defenders of the customary agrarian order lost.
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His ideal city seems to be a kind of agrarian democracy, a small scale agrarian society.
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In the last 100 years of the road's history, American society shifted from agrarian to industrial, with the rise of the second Industrial Revolution.
Academic text (2012) -
The shift from traditional to secular-rational values is linked to the shift from agrarian to industrial societies.
Academic text (2009) -
So Bruce asks, would this virtue be a parent in an agrarian community or hunter gatherer group?
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Even though the vast majority lacked much formal education and understanding of modern science, the most isolated agrarian seemingly sensed the value of growing tobacco.
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Clearly, the meritocratic belief in schooling has fit well with the ethic of hard work and self-improvement and the entrepreneurial spirit of the American character, having propelled the U.S. through its transition from an agrarian to an industrial society and now into a postindustrial, global age.
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In 1932, for instance, company personnel arranged with the A. J. Hend Produce Company of Nashville for Berrien County agrarians to raise 235 acres of contracted tomatoes.
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Many agrarians believe in sustainable farming practices that benefit the environment.
Synonyms
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1.0
A person who grows crops or raises animals on a farm
157
3.5
A person who works on land for a living, usually on a small farm
87
2.6
A person who raises plants or crops to sell
25
1.1
A person who works on a farm doing jobs like planting or harvesting
9
2.0
A person who owns or works on a small farm to grow food
8
3.0
A person paid to work on a farm doing hard work
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1.6
A person who works on a farm doing physical tasks like planting and caring for animals
5
8.2
A person who works as a farmer in rural areas, especially in Latin America
4
5.6
A person who breaks and turns soil to prepare land for planting
3
3.7
A farmer who rents land from a landowner instead of owning it
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7.4
A person who studies or works in farming to grow crops
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7.4
A person who raises and looks after grazing animals like cattle or sheep
1
6.1
A person who works in farming, often growing crops or raising animals
1
7.5
A small farmer who grows and gathers food plants
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3.2
A person who works on a farm doing manual tasks like planting and harvesting
A person who grows plants or crops on land
A person who works on a farm doing physical work in the fields
A person who lives and works on the land, like a farmer
A person who prefers to live in the countryside and values country life
How Agricultural
Surface Forms
Morphology
agrarian = agrarian (semi-transparent) = agr + arian
The noun sense is a straightforward conversion from the adjective 'agrarian', but the adjective itself is not fully transparent to most learners because the root is not a standalone English word.
Etymology
Agrarian comes from the old Latin root ager meaning 'field', the same root in agriculture. So an agrarian is a person who supports or works in farming and rural life.