Meaning

5 senses
  1. A person who gathers things.

    Sammler

    собира́тельsobirátelʹ, собира́тельницаsobirátelʹnica

    збира́чzbyráč, збира́чкаzbyráčka

    a person who gathers

  2. A person who gathers things.

    A person who primarily gathers in a hunter-gatherer social system.

    a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)

  3. A person who collects rent or taxes.

    сбо́рщикsbórščik, сбо́рщицаsbórščica

    збира́чzbyráč, збира́чкаzbyráčka

  4. An attachment to a sewing machine for making gathers in the cloth.

  5. A worker who collects molten glass on the end of a rod preparatory to blowing.

Examples

8 sentences
  1. Humans spent ninety percent of their history as hunter-gatherers.

    deDie Menschen waren 90 % ihrer Geschichte über Jäger und Sammler.

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  2. In hunter-gatherer societies, people take care of each other.

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  3. Early hunter-gatherers had a hard time finding carbohydrates in the wild.

    deDie ersten Jäger und Sammler hatten Schwierigkeiten, Kohlenhydrate in der Natur zu finden.

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  4. Why do hunter-gatherers have a more varied and nutritious diet than farmers?

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  5. We're not hunter-gatherers.

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Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
person who gathers things:
Русский
By meaning 2
person who gathers things:
person who collects rent or taxes:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
person who gathers things:

Origin

From Middle English gaderere, gaderare, equivalent to gather + -er.

From Middle English gaderere, gaderare, equivalent to gather + -er.

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Forms

plural: gatherers
Singulargatherer
Pluralgatherers

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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