Meanings
comparative more pastoralist · superlative most pastoralist
- Having features common to pastoralism.
a pastoralist society
plural pastoralists
- agricultureA person involved in pastoralism, whose primary occupation is the raising of livestock.
1 more example
2015, Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)https://web.archive.org/web/20151213095110/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/vultures-text As our truck weaves through flocks of sheep and goats, Virani explains how the Maasai have in recent years leased their land, which rings the northern section of the Masai Mara National Reserve, to conservancies established to protect wildlife by excluding pastoralists and their livestock.
Origin
Translations
French pastoraliste
- pastoralistehaving features common to pastoralism
Ukrainian скота́р, скота́рка
- скота́р (skotár)person involved in pastoralism
- скота́рка (skotárka)person involved in pastoralism
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