It's Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 4th.
Today's word is agrarian, spelled A-G-R-A-R-I-A-N.
Agrarian is an adjective.
Something described as agrarian has to do with farms and farming.
Here's the word used in a sentence from Ambrook Research by Hannah McCready.
In an interview,
cultural studies researcher Tony Smith said fantasizing about agrarian life is nothing new.
History presents cyclical back-to-the-land movements from America's early West settling pioneers to the homesteaders of the Great Depression.
Today, an acre is generally considered to be a unit of land measuring 43,560 square feet,
or 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 the words acre and agrarian come from the Latin noun agair,
and the Greek noun agros meaning piece of land or field.
You can probably guess that the word 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.
With your Word of the Day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.