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Plural of gatherer

regular plural

The plural of gatherer is gatherers.

Forms of gatherer

Singulargatherer
Pluralgatherers
Countablecountable

Gatherers in a sentence

  • The earliest sapiens were gatherers, scavengers, and hunters of food.2000, William H. Libaw, How we got to be human: subjective minds with objective bodies, page 277. From the entry sapiens
  • Where sedentism does occur amongst hunters and gatherers it seems generally to be related to a number of recurrent features.1982, Eric S. Higgs, M. R. Jarman, Early European Agriculture: Its Foundation and Development, page 46. From the entry sedentism
  • Surely very noticeable, those five malted progenitors: probably gatherers of much of the wealth which set up the family, and shoved it by Qu.a. 1920, Louise Imogen Guiney, edited by Grace Guiney, Letters of Louise Imogen Guiney, volume 2, published 1926, page 152. From the entry qu.
  • Paralegal workers do not argue cases in court, and these crimescene fingerprint gatherers do not compare crime-scene latents to known prints of suspects and present their findings in court.2008, Jim Fisher, Forensics Under Fire, →ISBN. From the entry latent
  • With their populations adjusted to the carrying capacity of the environment, hunters and gatherers rarely starve, for they are not dependent on the fortunes of a single crop.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London…. From the entry carrying capacity

Meaning of gatherer

  1. noun A person who gathers things.
  2. noun A person who primarily gathers in a hunter-gatherer social system.
  3. noun A person who collects rent or taxes.

Full definition of gatherer

Questions about the plural of gatherer

What is the plural of gatherer?
The plural of gatherer is gatherers.
Is gatherer countable?
Gatherer is a countable noun.

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