Synonyms of hunter-gatherer

hunter-gatherer

noun

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

Related Words

• hunter
• trapper
• sportsman
• huntsman
• archer
• huntress
• falconer
• hawker
• sportswoman
• birder
• gunner
• fowler
• nimrod
• poacher

Dissimilar Words

• nonhunter

Example Sentences

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