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gleaner

gleaner

1 7.7
A person who carefully gathers small amounts of information or resources
  • noun
  • /ˈɡliːnər/
translation icon : recolector

Examples

  • Your feet are rosy red with the glow of my heart's desire, gleaner of my sunset songs.

  • The gleaner carefully collected the leftover fruits from the orchard after the harvest.

  • As a gleaner, she spent her weekends gathering information from various sources for her research.

  • He was known as a gleaner in the community, always finding valuable resources that others overlooked.

Synonyms

collector
vsgleaner
137 3.0

A person who gathers and keeps special items like stamps

focuses on slow, careful work to get information or resources
gatherer
vsgleaner
19 3.2

A person who collects wild plants and berries for a living

is slower and careful, takes small amounts of information or resources

How Thorough

researcher
693 2.7
investigator
68 3.6
collector
137 3.0
gleaner
1 7.7
noter
6.5

Surface Forms

gleaner singular
gleaners plural

Morphology

gleaner = glean (transparent) = glean + er

The word 'gleaner' is transparently derived from 'glean' with the addition of the agentive suffix '-er', indicating a person who performs the action of gleaning.

Etymology

Gleaner comes from the verb glean, which means 'to gather' little by little from what is left. That's why a gleaner can also mean a person who collects facts or resources slowly and carefully.