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Definition: Agrarian |
AgrarianAdjective1. "an agrarian (or agricultural) society"; "farming communities". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "agrarian" was first used: 1618. (references) |
Synonyms: AgrarianSynonyms: agricultural (adj), farming(a) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agriculture | Adjective: agricultural, agrarian, agrestic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Agrarian |
| English words defined with "agrarian": agricultural ♦ Emiliano Zapata ♦ farming ♦ Zapata. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "agrarian": Agrarian Law ♦ Whiteboys. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | South front and east side. Photograph by David Johnson, March 29, 1981. (Reproduction Number: HABS, KANS,21-HOPE.V,1-B-2) As with the one-room schoolhouse, the single-family farm complexes that dot the American landscape are symbols of our rural heritage. The simple and straightforward structure of this barn is typical of the utilitarian character of agrarian buildings.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | 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. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Communism and agrarian law think they have solved the second problem. |
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Civil Liberties | Mozambique | In February classes began at a new Islamic agrarian sciences college in Nampula, the Mussa bin Bique University. (references) |
Brazil | MST protests increased during the year, despite the fact that the Government claimed to have invested $4.1 million (11.2 billion reais) in agrarian reform. (references) | |
Tajikistan | Three other parties are banned officially: The Party of Popular Unity (banned in 1998), the Agrarian Party (banned in April 1999), and the "Tehran platform" faction of the Democratic Party (banned in 1999). The Party of Economic and Political Revival of Tajikistan was not allowed to register in 1999 because of insufficient membership. (references) | |
Economic History | Guatemala | Socioeconomic and agrarian issues. (references) |
Serbia and Montenegro | Under communist rule, Serbia was transformed from an agrarian to an industrial society. (references) | |
Namibia | Namibia also is addressing the sensitive issue of agrarian land reform in a pragmatic manner. (references) | |
Human Rights | Honduras | On November 13, police in Ocotepeque shot and killed Isidro Geronimo, a member of the Chorti indigenous group protesting the National Agrarian Institute's refusal to grant legal title to the land they occupy. (references) |
Indonesia | In addition in 2000, four members of the Agrarian Reform Consortium (KPA) sued the police in Jakarta for forcibly removing them from a peaceful demonstration and hunger strike that they were conducting inside the Parliament building in Jakarta. (references) | |
Indonesia | There was no progress in the case of four members of the Agrarian Reform Consortium (KPA), an NGO based in Bandung, West Java that advocates for dispossessed farmers, claimed that they were kidnaped at gunpoint by unknown persons on August 14 in 2000. Their alleged abduction came after police forcibly removed them from a demonstration and hunger strike that they were conducting inside the Parliament building in Jakarta. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Bolivia | However, the issue of land, specifically the Agrarian Reform Law, has been a constant source of complaints and protests by indigenous people. (references) |
Indonesia | The Basic Agrarian Law states that land rights cannot be "in conflict with national and state interests," which provides the Government with a broad legal basis for land seizures. (references) | |
Bolivia | Although the Agrarian Reform Law extended the protection of the national labor law to all paid agricultural workers, including indigenous workers, the problem persists due to lack of effective enforcement. (references) | |
Political Economy | Poland | After 1989 the PSL returned to its pre-1945 origins as a classic European agrarian party. (references) |
Sweden | Center Party - Supported by agrarian groups but includes a significant environmentalist faction. (references) | |
Guatemala | The mostly agrarian, private sector-dominated economy grew by approximately 2.5 percent during the year. (references) | |
Political Rights | Kazakhstan | The Communist Party and three propresidential parties--Otan (Fatherland), the Civic Party, and the Agrarian Party--shared the 10 new party-list seats in the 1999 parliamentary election. (references) |
Trade | Hungary | In contrast, tariffs for industrial products imported from the EU and CEFTA countries were totally eliminated on January 1, 2001. (Hungary's trade agreement with the EU came into effect in February 1994 and with CEFTA in July 1994.) However, even these free trade agreements do not aim at complete exemption from duties on agrarian trade. (references) |
Worker Rights | Senegal | The only union in the agrarian sector was one representing workers at a privately owned sugar company. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Agrarian" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.65% of the time. "Agrarian" is used about 222 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.65% | 219 | 20,419 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.9% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.45% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 222 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "agrarian": agrarian league ♦ agrarian reform ♦ agrarian unrest. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "agrarian": agrarian-nationalism, agrarian-reform. | |
Ending with "agrarian": catholic-agrarian, feudal-aristocratic-agrarian, pro-agrarian, rural-agrarian. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
agrarian | 6 |
agrarian department reform | 5 |
agrarian reform | 4 |
agrarian society | 3 |
agrarian revolution | 3 |
agrarian republicanism | 3 |
agrarian development in nal reform | 2 |
agrarian foundation | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "agrarian"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | agrariër (farmer), landbouer (farmer), boer (Afrikaans, Afrikander, Afrikaner, Boer, farmer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | agrar (agricultural, farmer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حقلي (field), زراعي (agricultural), المنادى بإعادة توزيع الأراضي توزيعا عادلا. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | земеделски (agricultural, farming), земеделец (agriculturalist, agriculturist, cropper, farmer, husbandman, planter), аграрен (land), борец за аграрни реформи, полски (field, polish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 耕地 (infield). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | agrární, pozemkový (landed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | agrarstruktur (agrarian structure, agricultural structure, farming structure, land tenure, rural structure), agrarlandskab (agrarian landscape), Verdenskonference om landbrugsreformen og udviklingen af landdistrikter (World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development), omvæltning inden for landbruget (agrarian revolution), landbrugsstruktur (agrarian structure, agricultural structure, farming structure, land tenure, rural structure), landbrugsreform (agrarian reform, land reform), forbedring af landbrugsstrukturerne (agrarian restructuring, agrarian structure improvement, agricultural structural improvement, improvement of farm structure), forbedring af landbrugsstruktur (improvement of agrarian structure), forbedring af agrarstruktur (improvement of agrarian structure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | landbouwer (farmer), agrariër (farmer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | agrikulturisto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ملکی (Possessive), زمینی (Earthly, Earthy, Terrestrial, Territorial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | agraari. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | agriculteur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | agrarysk (agricultural, farm-), bouboer (farmer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | agrarisch (agricultural, farm-), agrar-. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αγρονομικόσ, αγροτικόσ (agricultural, countrified, rural, rustic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hawaiian | agrar (farmer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חקלאי (agricultural, agriculturist, farmer, farming, husbandman, yeoman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mezõgazdasági szakember, mezõgazdasági (agricultural, agronomic, agronomical, farming), földmûves (farmer, peasant, ploughman, tiller). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | agraria (agrarian affair), keagrariaan (agrarian matters). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | agricoltore (agriculturist, farmer, husbandman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 農地"革 (agrarian reform), 農漁民 (the fishing and agrarian populace), 農民運動 (agrarian movement), 農民一揆 (agrarian revolt or uprising). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | のうぎょみ" (the fishing and agrarian populace), のうみ"う"どう (agrarian movement), のうみ"いっき (agrarian revolt or uprising), のうちかいかく (agrarian reform). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 농촌. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | thallooinagh (earth-born, earthly, earthy, risky, terrestrial, territorial), obbree thallooin, magheragh (lowlander, of a field), cheeroil (countrified, countrylike, homely, racy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | agrikultor (farmer), agrario (agricultural, farm-). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | agrarianay agrário (praedial, predial). (various references) agrar (agricultural), adept al reformelor agrare. (various references) аграрный (agricultural). (various references) agrarni (land). (various references) agrario (agricultural, farm, farm-, land, landed). (various references) agrar-, lantbrukare (farmer), jordreformivrare, jordbruks- (agricultural, farming), jordbrukare (farmer). (various references) zirai (agricultural), ziraat (agricultural, agriculture, cultivation, cultural), tarımsal reform hareketi yanlısı, tarımsal (agricultural), tarım (agricultural, agriculture, cultivation, farming, growing, husbandry, tillage, tilth), kırsal (arcadian, countrified, country, pastoral, rural, rustic), çiftçilere yardım amaçlı, çiftçilere toprak dağıtma taraftarı. (various references) земельний (landed, predial, territorial), аграрій, аграрний. (various references) tirol (related to land), gwledig (countrified, country, rural). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | colonus. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | loy agrarienne. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "agrarian": agrarianism, agrarianisms, agrarians. (additional references) | |
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"Agrarian" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abraira, aerarian, agarian, aggarian, aggrerian, Aghredien, agraian, Agrario, agrarion, agrarius, agririan, agrocin, Aguaruna, ararian, argarian, argrarian, arrian, Garara, Garrigan, magharian, sagartian, sarariman. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "agrarian" (pronounced ugre"rēun) |
| 6 | -r e" r ē u n | contrarian, librarian. |
| 5 | -e" r ē u n | authoritarian, barbarian, carrion, centenarian, Clarion, disciplinarian, egalitarian, humanitarian, libertarian, majoritarian, nonsectarian, octogenarian, ovarian, parliamentarian, planarian, proletarian, sectarian, seminarian, septuagenarian, totalitarian, unitarian, utilitarian, vegetarian, veterinarian. |
| 4 | -r ē u n | centurion, criterion, Cyprian, equestrian, historian, hyperborean, pagurian, pedestrian, praetorian, presbyterian, salutatorian, valedictorian, valerian. |
| 3 | -ē u n | accordion, alien, amphibian, arcadian, bohemian, Campion, chameleon, champion, circadian, collodion, comedian, custodian, draconian, galleon, gorgonian, Guardian, halcyon, herculean, lesbian, mammalian, median, mediterranean, meridian, Napoleon, nickelodeon, oblivion, obsidian, Odeon, plutonian, scorpion, simian, subterranean, symbion, theologian, thespian, utopian. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-g-i-n-r-r" | |
-1 letter: angaria, arraign. | |
-2 letters: raring. | |
-3 letters: again, agria, garni, gnarr, grain, grana, naira. | |
-4 letters: agar, agin, airn, anga, aria, gain, girn, gnar, gran, grin, raga, ragi, raia, rain, rang, rani, ring. | |
-5 letters: aga, ain, air, ana, ani, gan, gar, gin, nag, rag, ran, ria, rig, rin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-g-i-n-r-r" | |
+1 letter: agrarians. | |
+2 letters: grammarian. | |
+3 letters: agrarianism, grammarians. | |
+4 letters: agrarianisms, paragraphing, paraphrasing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 67 72 61 72 69 61 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- --. .-. .- .-. .. .- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100111 01110010 01100001 01110010 01101001 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A g r a r i a n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0067 0072 0061 0072 0069 0061 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3573846784756780 |
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