单词 | back to the land |
释义 | back to the landn. A catchphrase applied to schemes for turning some of the dwellers in crowded cities into rural settlers. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > country dweller > turning into country dweller [phrase] back to the land1899 1894 Times 25 Oct. 12/2 All present were interested in the common principle that it was desirable, if possible, to bring the people back to the land.] 1899 Leisure Hour 136/2 The cry ‘back to the land’ has come to sound..unreal. 1905 Spectator 23 Dec. 1076/1 ‘Back-to-the-land!’ is a cry full not only of pathos, but of cogency. 1906 Times 15 Feb. 15/6 By doing so you may make the catchwords ‘Back to the Land’ a reality. Derivatives back-to-the-lander n. a townsman thus converted into a rural worker. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > country dweller > [noun] > ruralist ruralist1715 back-to-the-lander1903 1903 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Oct. 296/2 The common instincts that our ‘back-to-the-landers’ strive to relearn with arduous art. 1904 Daily Chron. 16 July 4/7 This is the way the successful small holder sets about the business. But it is not the fumbling, ineffective way of the townsman Back-to-the-Lander. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1899 |
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