pastoralist
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7.4
- noun
- /ˈpæstərəlɪst/
- Specialized
:
pastor
- In contrast to the Waata, the Maasai and Orma were nomadic pastoralists, moving seasonally with their herds in search of pasture and water.
- Maasai pastoralists
- nomadic pastoralists
- livestock from pastoralists
So there are active nomads and pastoralists who travel from the Horn of Africa all the way up to Kenya to Djibouti.
- So there are active nomads and pastoralists who travel from the Horn of Africa all the way up to Kenya to Djibouti.
Examples
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The Maasai, as a result, had to move and therefore adapt their pastoralist traditions to new environments.
Academic text (2007) -
The pastoralist community moved to a new grazing area to find better pastures for their cattle.
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These are nomadic pastoralists and these are not the folks next door.
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The widespread and rapid death of cattle therefore threatened the very bases of stability within pastoralist communities.
Academic text (2013) -
There are mostly two types of people in Turkana County, pastoralists and fishers.
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Somalis traditionally measure wealth in terms of livestock and therefore do not necessarily view pastoralists as poor.
Academic text (2003) -
The pastoralist Maasai, who had long shared the landscape with elephants rather than hunting them, fared somewhat better.
Academic text (2018) -
Competition for resources increases the likelihood of large numbers of Maasai pastoralists being impoverished by droughts of even very low intensity.
Academic text (1994) -
The Seljuk Turks were pastoralists, nomadic livestock farmers from the Central Asian steppe.
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The Maasai and Orma remain predominantly pastoralists, although declining access to pasture and persistent droughts have forced some to become farmers.
Academic text (2018)
Synonyms
458
1.8
A person who looks after cattle, often riding horses
93
1.9
A person who looks after and guides sheep on open land
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2.7
A person who owns or looks after a ranch that has cattle and sheep
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3.7
A person who looks after and moves animals like sheep or cattle
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3.2
A person who looks after and moves goats as a job
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4.2
A person who raises and looks after cattle on a farm or ranch
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5.6
A person who looks after sheep on open land
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6.5
A woman who looks after sheep
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5.0
A person who looks after and moves a group of animals like cows or sheep
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6.8
A person who looks after cows, often riding a horse on a farm
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8.8
A person who looks after cattle or sheep on grassland for sale
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5.5
A person who looks after cows on a farm or ranch, often riding a horse
A person who looks after a group of animals like cows or sheep
A woman who looks after a group of farm animals like sheep or cattle
A person who keeps and breeds animals like cows and sheep for meat or milk
A person who owns or works on a ranch and cares for cattle and horses
A man who raises and cares for sheep
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word pastoralist comes from the Latin word pastor, which means 'shepherd', and it shares the same root as pasture, the grassland where animals eat. So a pastoralist is someone who raises and herds grazing animals, like sheep or cattle.