seminomadic

Examples

• All

• Bedouin tribesmen participate in their nomadic and seminomadic worlds not as passive subjects bound totally to the dictates of lineage ideology and tradition.

  Academic text (1990)

• Gardens are not an impediment to this seminomadic movement, since they are not fenced and are weeded sporadically or sometimes not at all.

  Academic text (1992)

• The arrival of Europeans ended the seminomadic indigenous lifestyle that had been in place for generations.

  Academic text (2011)

• The Wa people lead a seminomadic life and believe that all natural phenomena, including plants and animals, are animated by spirits.

  Academic text (2015)

• The seminomadic Nuer of southern Sudan divide the year into wet and dry months; the seasons are recognized by changes in rainfall and wind patterns.

  Academic text (2004)

• It succeeded in introducing greens and beans to seminomadic communities who had never eaten vegetables before.

  Blog text (1)

• Once, during the cold season of 1983, camels from a seminomadic village of noble caravanners invaded a garden on an oasis about seven miles away.

  Academic text (1992)

• Barka is inhabited predominantly by the Beni-Amer, seminomadic pastoralist Muslims.

  Academic text (1991)

• In other cases, seminomadic tribes living near a provincial boundary have disappeared from one census only to reappear in the census of the neighboring province, where they are greeted as members of a lost tribe.

  Academic text (1997)

• The Wa people lead a seminomadic life, moving between locations in search of food and resources.

Synonyms

S

semisedentary

vsseminomadic

• Specialized

9.9

Partly living in one place and moving seasonally

puts equal weight on moving and living in one place

Antonyms

S

settled

2.7

Living in one place and not moving around

How Nomadic

nomadic

22 4.9

seminomadic

1 8.3

settled

2.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology