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hunter-gatherers

hunter-gatherers is the plural of hunter-gatherer.

Meaning of hunter-gatherer

Noun

hunter-gatherer (plural hunter-gatherers)

  1. 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.
    • He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2012, page 162

Questions about hunter-gatherers

What is hunter-gatherers the plural of?
Hunter-gatherers is the plural of hunter-gatherer.

Words near hunter-gatherers in the dictionary

  1. Hunter's screw
  2. hunter's stew
  3. hunter-gather
  4. hunter-gathered
  5. hunter-gatherer
  6. hunter-gatherers
  7. hunter-gathering
  8. hunter-gathers
  9. hunter-killer
  10. hunter-killers
  11. Hunter-Russell syndrome

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