Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hunter-gatherer

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 2.76 in modern English

Syllables: hunter--gath-er-er
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A member of a group of people who live by hunting animals and gathering edible plants for their main food sources, and who do not keep animals or farm land.

Example Sentences

"He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record."
"[…] Wengrow and Graeber argue that the life of hunter-gatherers before widespread farming was nothing like “the drab abstractions of evolutionary theory,” which hold that early humans lived in small bands in which they acted almost entirely on instinct, either brutish (as in Hobbes) or egalitarian and innocent (as in Rousseau)."
"“DNA from hunter-gatherers is present at higher levels in Northeastern Europe, which means the region has an elevated genetic risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease,” Barrie said."

Etymology

From hunter + gatherer.

Inflected Forms

hunter-gatherers (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

pastoralist

Questions

What does hunter-gatherer mean?: A member of a group of people who live by hunting animals and gathering edible plants for their main food sources, and who do not keep animals or farm land.
Where does hunter-gatherer come from?: From hunter + gatherer.

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