 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
agrarian
adjective: relating to rural matters; "an agrarian (or agricultural)
society"; "farming communities" [syn: {agricultural}, {farming(a)}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Agrarian \A*gra"ri*an\, adjective [L. agrarius, fr. ager field.]
1. Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp.,
relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as,
the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered
and other public lands among citizens.
His Grace's landed possessions are irresistibly
inviting to an agrarian experiment. --Burke.
2. (Bot.) Wild; -- said of plants growing in the fields.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Agrarian \A*gra"ri*an\, noun
1. One in favor of an equal division of landed property.
2. An agrarian law. [R.]
An equal agrarian is perpetual law. --Harrington.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
20 Moby Thesaurus words for "agrarian":
Arcadian, agrestic, agricultural, agronomic, arable, bucolic,
country, farm, farming, geoponic, lowland, native, natural,
pastoral, provincial, rural, rustic, uncultivated, undomesticated,
upland
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