Vocabulary Word
Word: agrarian
Definition: pertaining to land or its cultivation; Ex. agrarian reform
Definition: pertaining to land or its cultivation; Ex. agrarian reform
Sentences Containing 'agrarian'
In the little agrarian states of ancient Greece, a fourth or a fifth part of the whole body of the people considered the themselves as soldiers, and would sometimes, it is said, take the field.
Now, gentlemen, in square-sail brigs and three-masted ships, well-nigh as large and stout as any that ever sailed out of your old Callao to far Manilla; this Lakeman, in the land-locked heart of our America, had yet been nurtured by all those agrarian freebooting impressions popularly connected with the open ocean.
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