hunter-gatherer

1. 1.

   a member of a hunting and gathering society

   Broadersavage

   Part ofhunting and gathering tribe

Questions about hunter-gatherer

What does hunter-gatherer mean?

hunter-gatherer means "a member of a hunting and gathering society".

How many syllables are in hunter-gatherer?

hunter-gatherer has 5 syllables and divides as hun-ter--ga-the-rer under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is hunter-gatherer a common word?

hunter-gatherer is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.