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Spell Bee Word: Agrarian


What does agrarian mean?

Word: Agrarian

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: Agrarian means to do with farming, farmland and the people who work on the land.

Synonyms: farming, rural

Antonyms: industrial, urban

How do you spell agrarian?

Syllables: a - grar - i - an

Tricky part: The middle reads r-a-r, and the ending is ian.

Watch out for: agrerian, agrarien, agrairian

Memory tip: The middle r-a-r reads the same backwards, with the a sitting between two r's.

Agrarian in a sentence

Example 1: Villages in Punjab have an agrarian economy built on wheat and rice.

Example 2: The film shows agrarian life in a small village in France.

Example 3: The museum displays agrarian tools such as wooden ploughs and sickles.

Fun Fact

In the 1700s, new ways of farming in Britain, such as rotating crops between fields, changed agrarian life so much that historians call it the Agricultural Revolution.

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Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word:

agrarian

a) coastal
b) tropical
c) ancient
d) agricultural

Show answer

d) agricultural. Both agrarian and agricultural are about farming.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The old aggrarian laws of the state decided who could own a field.

a) state
b) field
c) aggrarian
d) laws

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c) aggrarian. Agrarian opens with a single g, as agriculture does.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) librarien
b) agrarian
c) vegeterian
d) musisian

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b) agrarian. Librarian ends in ian, vegetarian has eta in the middle and musician has a c, so agrarian is the only correct one.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which job would be most common in an agrarian region?

a) growing crops
b) writing software
c) running hotels
d) making steel

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a) growing crops

2. Farmers protesting about ____ are raising an agrarian issue.

a) traffic jams in the city
b) slow mobile networks
c) fair prices for their crops
d) the cost of cinema tickets

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c) fair prices for their crops

Associated Words

Words that end in -arian: utilitarian, egalitarian, humanitarian

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: rural

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