gatherer
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈɡæðərər/
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recolector
- As a gatherer, she spent her days foraging for fruits and herbs in the forest.
And in that time, we've gone from hunter gatherers to farmers.
- And in that time, we've gone from hunter gatherers to farmers.
- They were they, they developed there from hunter gatherers into basic farmers.
- We still think, I think in many ways with a hunter gatherer mentality.
- So yes, the simplest human societies, nomadic hunter gatherers, do fight.
- So after a nuclear war man returns to his hunter gatherer state.
- We know that in hunter gatherer societies from thousands of years ago, envy was a real problem.
- Yeah, I think, I mean, the hunter gatherer situation that our ancestors used to be in, it wasn't that long ago.
Examples
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As the hunter-gatherer literature has emphasized, children in many cases are involved in producing food.
Academic text (2008) -
The study addresses the causes of fighting among hunter-gatherers, whose way of life represents 99.5 percent of human history.
Academic text (2000) -
So this is not a hunter gatherer society that produced this account.
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How far do you think the average hunter gatherer walks?
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And this is back in the hunter gatherer era.
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We know that in hunter gatherer societies from thousands of years ago, envy was a real problem.
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Because men in ancient times were hunter gatherers, so they were outside more.
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We still think, I think in many ways with a hunter gatherer mentality.
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Similarly, some human hunter-gatherers obtained enough salt from the meat that they ate.
Academic text (1991) -
And in that time, we've gone from hunter gatherers to farmers.
Synonyms
137
3.0
A person who gathers and keeps special items like stamps
20
1.4
A person who chooses or gathers items, often fruit
9
2.0
A person or machine that collects crops when they are ready
1
7.7
A person who carefully gathers small amounts of information or resources
Antonyms
Compounds
11
5.5
A person who lives by catching animals and picking wild plants for food instead of farming
How Much
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Gatherer comes from the verb gather, which means 'to bring together' or 'collect', and the ending -er means 'one who'. So a gatherer is literally 'one who collects', for example someone who picks wild berries or roots.