agrarian
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\n \n Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 4, 2024 is:\n \n
\n \n\n agrarian • \\uh-GRAIR-ee-un\\ • adjective
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Something described as agrarian has to do with farms and farming.
\n\n// Joan hopes to leave city life behind and move to a more agrarian region where she plans to raise lambs and grow heirloom vegetables.
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"In an interview, [cultural studies researcher, Toni] Smith said fantasizing about agrarian life is nothing new. History presents cyclical 'back-to-the-land' movements, from America\u2019s early West-settling pioneers to the homesteaders of the Great Depression." \u2014 Hannah Macready, Ambrook Research, 17 Aug. 2023
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Today, an acre is generally considered to be a unit of land measuring 43,560 square feet (4,047 square meters). Before that standard was set, it's believed that an acre represented a rougher measurement: the amount of land that could be plowed in one day with a yoke of oxen. Both acre and agrarian come from the Latin noun ager and the Greek noun agr\xf3s, meaning "piece of land; field." (You can probably guess that agriculture is another descendant.) Agrarian, first used in English in the 16th century, describes things pertaining to the cultivation of fields, as well as to the farmers who cultivate them.
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