transhumant

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adjective

Of, pertaining to, or undergoing transhumance; seasonally migratory.

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Meanings

adjectivetranshumant (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf, pertaining to, or undergoing transhumance; seasonally migratory.

    A new form of subsistence, transhumant pastoralism, was now possible and indeed lucrative: booming textile industries linked urban centres to networks of mobile herders.

    2025 December 12, Tom Hercules Davies, “Horses, Wheels, Languages: Greek, Mesopotamian and Indic Epic on the Eurasian Steppe”, in The Classical Quarterly, volume 75, number 1, page 11
nountranshumant (plural transhumants)

plural transhumants

  1. A seminomadic farmer.
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APA

transhumant. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transhumant

MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “transhumant,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transhumant.

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