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pastoralist

pastoralist adjective: having features common to pastoralism.

Adjective

pastoralist (comparative more pastoralist, superlative most pastoralist)

  1. Having features common to pastoralism.
    • a pastoralist society

Noun

pastoralist (plural pastoralists)

  1. A person involved in pastoralism, whose primary occupation is the raising of livestock.
    • As our truck weaves through flocks of sheep and goats, Virani explains how the Maasai have in recent years leased their land, which rings the northern section of the Masai Mara National Reserve, to conservancies established to protect wildlife by excluding pastoralists and their livestock.2015, Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)https://web.archive.org/web/20151213095110/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01...

Forms of pastoralist

Adjective
comparativemore pastoralist
superlativemost pastoralist
Noun
pluralpastoralists

Origin of pastoralist

From pastoral + -ist.

Words formed from pastoralist

Questions about pastoralist

What does pastoralist mean?
Pastoralist means having features common to pastoralism.
What part of speech is pastoralist?
Pastoralist can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near pastoralist in the dictionary

  1. pastoralised
  2. pastoralises
  3. pastoralising
  4. pastoralism
  5. pastoralisms
  6. pastoralist
  7. pastoralists
  8. pastorality
  9. pastoralization
  10. pastoralizations
  11. pastoralize

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