Usually means: Societies foraging and hunting for subsistence.
Definitions Related words Phrases Mentions
We found 18 dictionaries that define the word hunter-gatherer:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. hunter-gatherer: Merriam-Webster
  2. hunter-gatherer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hunter-gatherer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hunter-gatherer, hunter-gatherer: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hunter-gatherer: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hunter-Gatherer, hunter-gatherer: Wordnik
  7. hunter-gatherer: Wiktionary
  8. hunter-gatherer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. hunter-gatherer: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. hunter-gatherer: Dictionary.com
  11. Hunter-Gatherer, Hunter-gatherer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. hunter-gatherer: Rhymezone
  13. hunter-gatherer: FreeDictionary.org
  14. hunter-gatherer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. hunter-gatherer: TheFreeDictionary.com

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

(Note: See hunter-gatherers as well.)

Google, News, Images, Wikipedia, Reddit, BlueSky
Definitions from Wiktionary (
)
American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  A member of a group of people who live by hunting animals and gathering edible plants for their main food sources, and who do not keep animals or farm land.

Similar:
agropastoralist, nomade, preagriculturalist, primitive, Fourth World, archaic, hoe-farming, Paleo diet, macroband, paleoethnobotanist, more...

Phrases:
Western Hunter-Gatherer, Eastern Hunter-Gatherer, Caucasus hunter-gatherer, Scandinavian Hunter-Gatherer, more...

▸ Words similar to hunter-gatherer

▸ Usage examples for hunter-gatherer

▸ Idioms related to hunter-gatherer

▸ Wikipedia articles (New!)

▸ Popular adjectives describing hunter-gatherer

▸ Words that often appear near hunter-gatherer

▸ Rhymes of hunter-gatherer

▸ Invented words related to hunter-gatherer

Similar:
agropastoralist, nomade, preagriculturalist, primitive, Fourth World, archaic, hoe-farming, Paleo diet, macroband, paleoethnobotanist, more...

Phrases:
Western Hunter-Gatherer, Eastern Hunter-Gatherer, Caucasus hunter-gatherer, Scandinavian Hunter-Gatherer, more...



Writing poetry or lyrics? You can find related words that match a given meter.
This feature is permanently available from the "Related words" tab and from the Thesaurus.


(Click a button above to see words related to "hunter-gatherer" that fit the given meter.)



Home   Reverse Dictionary / Thesaurus   Datamuse   Word games   Spruce   Feedback   Dark mode   Random word   Help


Color thesaurus

Use OneLook to find colors for words and words for colors

See an example

Literary notes

Use OneLook to learn how words are used by great writers

See an example

Word games

Try our innovative vocabulary games

Play Now

Read the latest OneLook newsletter issue: Threepeat Redux