gatherer
A person who gathers thingsA person who gathers things.
» Humans spent ninety percent of their history as hunter-gatherers.
Die Menschen waren 90 % ihrer Geschichte über Jäger und Sammler.
Meaning
5 sensesA person who gathers things.
Sammler
собира́тельsobirátelʹ, собира́тельницаsobirátelʹnica
збира́чzbyráč, збира́чкаzbyráčka
a person who gathers
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)
A person who collects rent or taxes.
сбо́рщикsbórščik, сбо́рщицаsbórščica
збира́чzbyráč, збира́чкаzbyráčka
An attachment to a sewing machine for making gathers in the cloth.
A worker who collects molten glass on the end of a rod preparatory to blowing.
Examples
8 sentencesHumans spent ninety percent of their history as hunter-gatherers.
deDie Menschen waren 90 % ihrer Geschichte über Jäger und Sammler.
In hunter-gatherer societies, people take care of each other.
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.
Why do hunter-gatherers have a more varied and nutritious diet than farmers?
We're not hunter-gatherers.
Translations
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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: gatherersSynonyms
2 synonyms- a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes):collectoraccumulator