agrarian
/əˈɡɹɛ(ə)ɹi.ən/
agrarian adjective: of, or relating to, the ownership, tenure and cultivation of land.
Adjective
agrarian (comparative more agrarian, superlative most agrarian)
- Of, or relating to, the ownership, tenure and cultivation of land.
- Agricultural or rural.
- Wild; said of plants growing in a cultivated field.
Noun
agrarian (plural agrarians)
- A person who advocates the political interests of working farmers.
agrarian meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
agrarian in Tamil
- நில உடைமைச் சார்ந்த, வேளாண்மைச் சார்ந்த, வேளாண்மையர்
agrarian in Urdu
- دیہی, زَرعی, زَراعتی, اراضی, تَقسیمِ اراضی سے مُتَعلِق, زمینی املاک سے مُتعلِق
agrarian in Bengali
- কৃষি, ভূমি সংক্রান্ত
agrarian in Malayalam
- rural, agricultural, rustic
- കാർഷിക, കൃഷിഭൂമിയെ സംബന്ധിച്ച, ഭൂമിവിഷയകമായ, കൃഷിസംബന്ധമായ, കർഷകവൃത്തിയെ സംബന്ധിച്ച, ഗ്രാമീണമായ
More languagesFewer languages
- agrarian in Kannada
- ಉಳುಮೆಯ, ಸಾಗುವಳಿಯ, ಒಕ್ಕಲುತನದ
- agrarian in Tagalog
- sakahanin
- agrarian in Arabic
- زِرَاعِيّ zirāʕiyy
- agrarian in Indonesian
- agraria
Examples of agrarian in a sentence
- In the present day, New England's stonewalls are the lineaments of her former agrarian vitality.
- In hunting or agrarian societies dependent upon nature, femaleness was honored as an immanent principle of fertility.
- On the other hand, the masses of the people wanted real industrial and agrarian democracy.
Forms of agrarian
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more agrarian |
| superlative | most agrarian |
| Noun | |
| plural | agrarians |
Origin of agrarian
From Middle French agrarien, from Latin agrarius (“of the land”), from stem of ager (“field”) + -arius.
Words formed from agrarian
Phrases with agrarian
Words that rhyme with agrarian
- Darien
- barbarian
- Aryan
- libertarian
- Arian
- documentarian
- humanitarian
- sabbatarian
- sectarian
- unitarian
- vegetarian
- -arian
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- Bulgarian
- caesarian
- catenarian
- librarian
- lunarian
- Marian
- planetarian
- Ripuarian
- Solarian
- trinitarian
- alphabetarian
- antiauthoritarian
- aquarian
- Bolivarian
- communitarian
- contrarian
- corpuscularian
- denarian
- flexitarian
- futilitarian
- infirmarian
- Kaffrarian
- necessitarian
- nonsectarian
- paraovarian
- parian
- pollotarian
- proprietarian
- quinarian
- sacramentarian
- sanitarian
- semivegetarian
- Tartarean
- Tartarian
- Tocharian
- tricenarian
- valetudinarian
- vestiarian
- acarian
- actiniarian
- actuarian
- aerarian
- alcyonarian
- altitudinarian
- antelapsarian
- antiacarian
- antiegalitarian
- antilapsarian
Questions about agrarian
- What does agrarian mean?
- Agrarian means of, or relating to, the ownership, tenure and cultivation of land.
- What is agrarian in Tamil?
- Agrarian in Tamil is நில உடைமைச் சார்ந்த, வேளாண்மைச் சார்ந்த, வேளாண்மையர். See Agrarian meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is agrarian?
- Agrarian can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce agrarian?
- Agrarian is pronounced /əˈɡɹɛ(ə)ɹi.ən/.
Words near agrarian in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: agrarian (page history and authors); agrarian (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); agrarian (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); agrarian (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); agrarian (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); agrarian (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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