It's Merion Webster's word of the day for May 4th.

Today's word of the day for May 4th.

Today's word is agrarian, agrarr agrrr. 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 I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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