gatherer

«gatherer» in Mova's school dictionary: A person or animal that collects things, such as food… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a gatherer, gatherers)

meaning for a pupil

1) A person or animal that collects things, such as food, information or people. tree →

2) Hunter-gatherers: people who live by hunting animals and collecting wild plants, nuts and berries instead of farming. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history lessons, Stone Age people were hunter-gatherers before farming began. In geography, a few groups still live partly this way today. In everyday life, a gatherer collects things, for example a news gatherer or a berry gatherer. Phrases: hunter-gatherers, data gatherer.

examples

• Stone Age people were hunter-gatherers. tree →
• Hunter-gatherers moved from place to place to find food. tree →
• The honey gatherer climbed the tall tree. tree →
• In our group, I was the information gatherer. tree →
• Squirrels are busy gatherers of nuts in autumn. tree →
• The gatherers came back with baskets of berries. tree →

note

Countable. From gather (to collect). Hunter-gatherers did not farm or keep crops.

In the corpora

• Hunter-gatherers knew all that by heart, along with hundreds of plants and animals.
• The oldest known pottery, found in China, is about 20,000 years old and was made by hunter-gatherers, before farming.
• If grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes?

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «gatherer» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.