gatherer
Americannoun
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a person or thing that collects, brings together, or accumulates.
The artist acts as both gatherer and creator, collecting vintage artifacts and orchestrating them into open-ended narratives.
The data gatherers are to inquire about product safety, potential drug interactions, cost, and efficacy.
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a person who comes together with others.
In Black churches throughout the South, gatherers celebrated “Watch Night” on December 31, 1862, counting down to the moment when the Emancipation Proclamation would take effect.
Etymology
Origin of gatherer
Explanation
A gatherer is someone who collects or forages things. In the late fall, squirrels become gatherers, grabbing all the acorns they can find and saving them for winter snacks. Anyone who gathers, assembles, or collects things can be described as a gatherer. Some gatherers (like squirrels) accumulate food that they find here and there. Early humans were hunter-gatherers, meaning that acquired food both by hunting animals and by foraging for roots, mushrooms, berries, and other nutritious plants.
Vocabulary lists containing gatherer
Example Sentences
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At the book’s opening, a skilled Gatherer botches an extraction.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 20, 2020
"Zika is Zika until proven otherwise. We assume that all Zikas are equally dangerous," said Dr. Derek Gatherer, a biomedical expert at Lancaster University in Britain.
From Reuters • Nov. 23, 2016
Dr Derek Gatherer, lecturer in the Division of Biomedical and Life Sciences at Lancaster University, said it was "now becoming clear that Ebola is a far more complex disease than we previously imagined".
From BBC • Feb. 23, 2016
"The closer we look at the Ebola virus, the more complicated it becomes," Derek Gatherer, a virus expert at Britain's Lancaster University, said when asked to comment on the relapse.
From Scientific American • Oct. 15, 2015
“Did you hear about what happened to Gatherer last night? He tried to go back but it had been too long.”
From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry
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