hunter-gatherer

[ huhn-ter-gath-er-er ]

noun

, Anthropology.

1. a member of a group of people who subsist by hunting, fishing, or foraging in the wild.

hunter-gatherer

adjective

1. (of a society, lifestyle, etc) surviving by hunting animals and gathering plants for subsistence

noun

1. a member of such a society

Example Sentences

“I think at that level the acquisitive hunter-gatherer gene influences them more than riches,” Bass said.

From The Daily Beast

Should we live like our hunter-gatherer forebears, run barefoot and eat nothing but meat, nuts, and fruit?

From The Daily Beast

To judge by living hunter-gatherer peoples, these groups would have been fiercely egalitarian, with no head men or chiefs.

From The Daily Beast