Agrarian

Word AGRARIAN
Character 8
Hyphenation a gra ri an
Pronunciations /əˈɡɹɛ(ə)ɹi.ən/

Definitions and meanings of "Agrarian"

What do we mean by agrarian?

Relating to the cultivation of land; agricultural. adjective

Relating to or concerning the land and its ownership, cultivation, and tenure. adjective

A person who favors equitable distribution of land. noun

Relating to lands, especially public lands; pertaining to the equal or uniform division of land.

Growing in fields; wild: said of plants.

Rural.

One who favors an equal division of property, especially landed property, among the inhabitants of a country, or a change in the tenure of land. noun

The land itself. noun

An agrarian law. noun

One in favor of an equal division of landed property. noun

An agrarian law. noun

Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands. adjective

Wild; -- said of plants growing in the fields. adjective

Of, or relating to, the ownership, tenure and cultivation of land adjective

Agricultural or rural. adjective

A person who advocates the political interests of working farmers noun

Relating to rural matters adjective

A person who advocates the political interests of working farmers

Agrarian reform policies Urban Dictionary

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The word "agrarian" in example sentences

There is Marx's account of "primitive accumulation" in English agrarian history in the 17th and 18th centuries in Capital. ❋ Daniel Little (2008)

This book chronicles a high tech commune, where they were bound together not in agrarian pursuits but in a techno-cyber-public relations firm where they were always in contact remotely. ❋ Unknown (2005)

While shifts in agrarian politics, economy, and society over the past two centuries have prompted certain adjustments, two patterns are striking in the local ceramic industry as women had, on a very small scale, begun to revive it in postwar Magude. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Yes, the word agrarian sure does come up a lot around here. ❋ Herrick Kimball (2005)

For example, we remember how it was practically a sacrilege to mention the word agrarian reform in the ❋ Unknown (1971)

It was difficult for them to work together with Yugoslavia which was a believer in agrarian democracy. ❋ Unknown (1944)

In the second novella, we’re told that “the accursed income tax” in agrarian, collectivized America is one percent of all a family buys or sells during a month, paid at the end of each month with produce or manufactured goods. ❋ Unknown (2005)

What Mr. Landes classifies as "agrarian millennialism" is illustrated by the Taiping in China in the mid-19th century. ❋ Kenneth Minogue (2011)

Not for nothing was Mao's philosophy of government called "agrarian socialism." ❋ Raymond Zhong (2011)

My contention is that prior to the Revolutionary War, the economic modalities, especially in the southern colonies, could most aptly be characterized as agrarian, pre-capitalist -- ❋ Unknown (1997)

However, when they heard talk of revolution, a real revolution not a story of revolution, and when they heard [Castro corrects himself] and before they heard talk of socialism, because they did not like the idea of agrarian reform, urban reform, social justice and antimperialist struggle, 3,000 of them left. ❋ Unknown (1977)

The so-called agrarian, socialists, among whom must be numbered the single-taxists, do not propose to abolish private ownership of all productive goods, but maintain only that the land with the natural bounties which it holds out to mankind essentially belongs to the whole nation. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

We have heard enough of New England radicalism, as if that part of the country where there is the most education and the greatest accumulation of property in the hands of the most holders were the most likely to be carried away by what are called agrarian theories. ❋ James Russell Lowell (1855)

This kind of law fixing the balance in lands is called agrarian, and was first introduced by God himself, who divided the land of Canaan to his people by lots, and is of such virtue that wherever it has held, that government has not altered, except by consent; as in that unparalleled example of the people of Israel, when being in liberty they would needs choose a king. ❋ James Harrington (1644)

'Of late,' says Livy, 'riches have introduced avarice, and voluptuous pleasures abounding have through lust and luxury begot a desire of lasting and destroying all good orders.' if the greatest security of a commonwealth consists in being provided with the proper antidote against this poison, her greatest danger, must be from the absence of an agrarian, which is the whole truth of the Roman example. ❋ James Harrington (1644)

And yet I differ so much from my lord, or his opinion that the agrarian was the ruin of Lacedaemon, that I hold it no less than demonstrable to have been her main support. ❋ James Harrington (1644)

The question is different in Oaxaca, where the communal land fall under different ownership laws as they are called agrarian communities, not ejidos, so they can't be so easily privatized, and what's more, the majority of the communities in Oaxaca didn't participate in the PROCEDE scheme. ❋ Unknown (2009)

agrarian reform policies ❋ Agrarian Reform Policies (2022)

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