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pastoralist

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for pastoralist.

Editorial note

It comes from people from civilization documenting populations that are hunter-gatherers or pastoralist and sometimes partly subsistence agriculturalists.

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Quick take

Having features common to pastoralism.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of pastoralist gathered in one view.

adjective

Having features common to pastoralism.

noun

(agriculture) A person involved in pastoralism, whose primary occupation is the raising of livestock.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for pastoralist.

adjective

Having features common to pastoralism.

noun

(agriculture) A person involved in pastoralism, whose primary occupation is the raising of livestock.

Example sentences

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It comes from people from civilization documenting populations that are hunter-gatherers or pastoralist and sometimes partly subsistence agriculturalists.

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Then you're just a pastoralist and likely a Malthusian, not talking about ecological sustainability at all.

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From the pastoralist's point of view their hunting grounds are being raided by agriculturalists.

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They have a choice: be the second or third wife of a rich pastoralist or be the first wife of a poor one.

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So if those nomadic pastoralist communities jumped of a bridge you would too?

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If you have a pastoralist dream, feel free to build rural housing units.

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Pretty much anything involving urban gardening is a fake hippie pastoralist idea.

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Then he's a figurehead who tried to erase the natural and cultural history of California in an effort to further his own pastoralist agenda.

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Rice farming is a very different way of life to pastoralist is very different to hoe agriculture is very different to hunting and gathering.

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In fact, the political fabric that the Amorites impacted was itself a hybridization of early settled Sumerian polities and the nomadic/pastoralist Semitic peoples around it.

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And anyone who doesn't think American farmers would recognize a mortgage broker when they saw one is suffering from a deeply ahistorical and pastoralist view of farming.

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[edit to add] At absolute best he was a pastoralist, which is now a dirty word.

Quote examples

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You can see that the 'priestly' castes have, on average, more "steppe pastoralist" heritage.

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I sense this may coin several new phrases, much like "software is eating the world." breaking smart, Promethean mindset /pastoralist mindsets.

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Any nomadic pastoralist community demonstrates this be default with blood and milk being staples, fresh liver as “treats” and fresh cow dung being used as building material.

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> Any nomadic pastoralist community demonstrates this be default with blood and milk being staples, fresh liver as “treats” and fresh cow dung being used as building material.

Proper noun examples

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Pastoralist societies lived in environments that conditioned them better for war (and a zero-sum mindset) but bad at setting up long lasting institutions.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use pastoralist in a sentence?

It comes from people from civilization documenting populations that are hunter-gatherers or pastoralist and sometimes partly subsistence agriculturalists.

What does pastoralist mean?

Having features common to pastoralism.

What part of speech is pastoralist?

pastoralist is commonly used as adjective, noun.