hunter-gatherer

noun

Definition of hunter-gatherernext
as in hunter
a member of a culture in which people hunt animals and look for plants to eat instead of growing crops and raising animals a tribe of hunter-gatherers

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Recent Examples of hunter-gatherer For our hunter-gatherer ancestors, getting enough of these critical nutrients was a daily life-and-death struggle. — Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 17 June 2026 These new findings demonstrate that the plague was seriously impacting these mobile, small hunter-gatherer groups before the transition, if not others. — Margherita Bassi, Popular Science, 17 June 2026 That’s the latest reason given in a series of efforts to evict the Ogiek people, an Indigenous group of hunter-gatherers in the Mau forest of East Africa. — Buket Altınçelep, The Conversation, 12 June 2026 Around a hundred members of the hunter-gatherer Shompen tribe live in the Great Nicobar's rainforests. — Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 7 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for hunter-gatherer
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hunter-gatherer
  1. hunter
  2. trapper
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  • Historian Casey Pallister argues that the brief but intense era of the bone hunters, those who scoured the land for the bones, should be better known.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 20 July 2026
  • Now, over a year after the film’s premiere, the demand for merchandise is finally being fulfilled with the pending release of dolls of singers/demon hunters Rumi, Mira and Zoey from Mattel, role-playing toys from Hasbro and Funko Pops!
    — Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of hunter
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  • To remove cane toads from your property, wear eye and skin protection, and contact a wildlife trapper if necessary.
    — Sarah Perkel, USA Today, 8 July 2026
  • In the summer of 2019, Parker started dating local hog trapper Wade Griffin, but their relationship started deteriorating just a few months later.
    — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 18 June 2026
Definition of trapper

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