Agriculturalism

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A school of Chinese philosophy, prevalent during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods (770 to 221 BC), that advocated for peasant utopian communalism and egalitarianism. uncountable
  2. 2
    Any ideology that promotes agriculture. uncountable

    "Before the nineteenth century closed, industrial capitalism and agriculturalism came to a showdown."

  3. 3
    The practice of agriculture; agriculturism. dated, nonstandard, uncountable

    "In terms of declining agriculturalism, not far behind the five countries discussed above are three of the Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Norway and Sweden), six other European countries (Austria, Czechoslovakia, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Switzerland), and Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Argentina."

Synonyms

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agriculturism

Example

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"Before the nineteenth century closed, industrial capitalism and agriculturalism came to a showdown."

Etymology

From agricultural + -ism.

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spring and autumnwarring states

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