单词 | agroliterate |
释义 | > as lemmasagroliterate agroliterate adj. Brit. , U.S. designating a polity or social system in which the majority of people are peasant agricultural producers, controlled by a small elite to whom literacy is largely restricted; of or relating to such a polity or system.ΚΠ 1976 E. Gellner in Govt. & Opposition Summer 264 The overwhelming and justified sense of illegitimacy of surviving agro-literate civilizations generates the illusion that there must be some manifest self-evidently valid other Order. 1997 B. V. Street in N. H. Hornberger Indigenous Literacies in Americas 144 Simple accounts of agro-literate society, as divided between a literate elite and an illiterate peasantry, may have to be revised. 2005 L. E. Cahoone Cultural Revol. 208 The agroliterate age is roughly ten thousand years old. < as lemmas |
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