hunter-gatherer

English

Etymology

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.

   Coordinate term: pastoralist

   • 2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 13 February 2012, page 162:

     He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.

Translations

person whose main food source is hunting and gathering

• Catalan: caçador-recol·lector m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 狩獵採集者／狩猎采集者 (shòuliè cǎijí zhě), 狩獵採集民／狩猎采集民 (shòuliè cǎijí mín)

• Dutch: jager-verzamelaar (nl) m
• Finnish: metsästäjä-keräilijä (fi)
• French: chasseur-cueilleur (fr) m
• German: Jäger und Sammler m, Wild- und Feldbeuter m, Wildbeuter und Feldbeuter m (rare)
• Greek: κυνηγός-συλλέκτης m (kynigós-sylléktis), τροφοσυλλέκτης (el) m (trofosylléktis)
• Hungarian: vadászó-gyűjtögető
• Italian: cacciatore-raccoglitore m
• Japanese: 狩猟採集民 (shuryō saishūmin)
• Korean: 수렵채집민(狩獵採集民) (suryeopchaejimmin)
• Polish: łowca-zbieracz m
• Portuguese: caçador-recoletor (pt) m, caçador-coletor m
• Romansch: chatschader e rimnader m
• Russian: охо́тник-собира́тель (ru) m (oxótnik-sobirátelʹ)
• Spanish: cazador-recolector m
• Thai: คนเก็บของป่าล่าสัตว์
• Welsh: heliwr-gasglwr m

References

• Random House Dictionary, 2nd Edition. Unabridged, 1987.

Further reading

• hunter-gatherer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia