agrarian
pronunciation
How to pronounce agrarian in British English:
UK [əˈɡreəriən]
How to pronounce agrarian in American English:
US [əˈɡreriən]
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- Adjective:
- relating to rural matters
Word Origin
- agrarian (adj.)
- 1610s, "relating to the land," from Middle French loy agrarienne "agrarian law," corresponding to Latin Lex agraria, the Roman law for the division of conquered lands, from agrarius "of the land," from ager (genitive agri) "a field," from PIE *agro- (cognates: Greek agros "field," Gothic akrs, Old English æcer "field;" see acre). Meaning "having to do with cultivated land" first recorded 1792.
Example
- 1. This is akin to when the industrial revolution overwhelmed the agrarian age .
- 2. In closed agrarian societies , families need a lot of children as insurance against disaster .
- 3. This roughly tracks the passage from poverty to middle-income status and from an agrarian society to a modern one .
- 4. It 's a surprising phenomenon in a population that is more likely to associate the countryside with hard agrarian labor than a peaceful retreat to nature .
- 5. The country 's vast , mostly agrarian west was isolated from the international economy and lagged badly behind the booming east coast in progress and prosperity .