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transhumant

transhumant adjective: of, pertaining to, or undergoing transhumance; seasonally migratory.

Adjective

transhumant (not comparable)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or undergoing transhumance; seasonally migratory.
    • A new form of subsistence, transhumant pastoralism, was now possible and indeed lucrative: booming textile industries linked urban centres to networks of mobile herders.2025 December 12, Tom Hercules Davies, “Horses, Wheels, Languages: Greek, Mesopotamian and Indic Epic on the Eurasian Steppe”, in The Classical Quarterly, volume 75, number 1, page 11

Noun

transhumant (plural transhumants)

  1. A seminomadic farmer.

Forms of transhumant

pluraltranshumants

Questions about transhumant

What does transhumant mean?
Transhumant means of, pertaining to, or undergoing transhumance; seasonally migratory.
What part of speech is transhumant?
Transhumant can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near transhumant in the dictionary

  1. transhumanize
  2. transhumanized
  3. transhumanizes
  4. transhumanizing
  5. transhumans
  6. transhumant
  7. transhumants
  8. transhume
  9. transhumed
  10. transhumeral
  11. transhumes

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