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uh-GRAIRR-ee-uh-n/əˈɡreəriən/

Agrarian means connected with farming and the use of land for crops or livestock: an agrarian economy; agrarian reform. Agricultural is a close twin, often more technical; rural is of the countryside, not only farms; arable is crop land. An agrarian economy in the development case still needs the % in agriculture. Mix-up: agrarian vs aquarian; aggressive; do not write agrarian for a city park with no farmed land.

Meaning

Connected with farming and the use of land for crops or livestock.

Examples

• “An agrarian economy in the development case still needs the % in agriculture, the geography paper said.”
• “Agrarian reform featured in the history source, which is the land-law sense — still name the year and the Act.”

Good to know

an agrarian economy / society / reform. Close: agricultural / rural. Narrower: arable. Trap: a park with no farmed land. Geography, history, and citizenship. Of farming and farmed land — quote the % or the Act.

Near in meaning

agricultural, farming, rural

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