agrarian
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6.5
- adjective
- /əˈɡrɛəriən/
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agrario
- In an agrarian society, farming is central to the economy and daily life.
- Agrarian Reform
- agrarian society
- agrarian economy
And because, you know, the economy itself is still agrarian, right?
- And because, you know, the economy itself is still agrarian, right?
- What could make Welcome more productive in this agrarian world?
- And those that new way of living influenced the ways in which early agrarian civilizations patterned meaning into their world.
- And they don't want to be subjected to that old pattern of agrarian society when you had ten children or eight children.
- So they were played to defend the way they wanted to govern themselves by the way they wanted to trade with Europe or an agrarian based economy.
- But you know, in a, in a, in a how in a economy, a sort of pre modern economy that's mostly artisan or agrarian work.
- Texas's economy very energy based at the time versus California agrarian growing of all kinds of of products and services.
- What I imagined first were pruning hooks, something biblical agrarian, a new use for metal, once good for little more than tearing the air from a docile body.
Examples
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To this day, in many developing and agrarian societies, children learn life skills from their parents.
Academic text (1992) -
We even agree with agrarian reform... ...as long as it's done reasonably... ...and brings in money.
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We are an agrarian country.
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What could it be in this agrarian economy that shifts the labor demand up and down?
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So modern day Cyprus is a pretty advanced place, but not too long ago these places were agrarian societies.
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Finally, most literature on Latin American land reform focuses on agrarian contexts.
Academic text (2008) -
Once such land is purchased, it must be transferred to the Agrarian Reform beneficiaries.
Academic text (1991) -
Furthermore, urban expansion has encumbered agrarian families' abilities to fully provision their households.
Academic text (2017) -
Given the economic volatility combined with periods of urban expansion and land fragmentation, agrarian families routinely revisited livelihood strategies.
Academic text (2017) -
Mexico's long experiment with state-led agrarian reform (SLAR), between 1917 and 1992, has ended.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
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3.7
Connected with farming, growing crops, or keeping animals
Relating to growing crops and raising animals for food
How Agricultural
Surface Forms
Morphology
agrarian = agriculture (semi-transparent) = agr + arian
The suffix '-arian' indicates a relation to agriculture, but the specific adjective form 'agrarian' is not directly derivable for all learners.
Etymology
Agrarian comes from the old Latin root ager meaning 'field', which you can also see in agriculture. So agrarian describes things that belong to the land or to farming.