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US
/ˈɡæðɝɝ/
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[ UK /ɡˈæðəɹɐ/ ]
[ UK /ɡˈæðəɹɐ/ ]
NOUN
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a person who gathers
they were a society of hunters and gatherers - a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
How To Use gatherer In A Sentence
- These Mesolithic cultures (Mesolithic, meaning Middle Stone Age, describes postIce Age European hunter-gatherers) achieved some degree of social complexity in Scandinavia, where richly decorated individuals were buried in cemeteries by 5500 B.C.E. These same cultures were the indigenous societies of Europe, farmers who first spread north and west across central Europe from the Balkans after 4500 B.C.E. 1 3. Mesolithic Hunter-Gatherers in Europe
- Therefore, agricultural, herding societies will carry deadlier germs than will hunter-gatherers or people that farm only plants.
- ‘These people are actually paid and trained semi-professional evidence gatherers, and they are not police officers,’ he said.
- McKean and other professional word gatherers join enthusiastic amateurs in Wallraff's new book Word Fugitives, which reassures us that taking language seriously needn't always mean being serious about language. Sniglets and Slithy Toves
- A hunter-gatherer couple stand by an uprooted tree. Times, Sunday Times
- He said that socialism in all its forms cannot accommodate any economic development beyond the hunter-gatherer stage.
- But the honey-bee has absolutely no wit or cunning outside of her special gifts as a gatherer and storer of honey. An Idyl of the Honey-bee
- The signatures are piled up in order, and a "gatherer" collects one from each pile for every book. Makers of Many Things
- Today they recognize that human foibles, biases and our hunter - gatherer origins can often be critical factors.
- With the progress of civilization all over the world, forest dwellers that were hunters and fruit gatherers have turned into denizens of the concrete jungle.