Pastoralist
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A person involved in pastoralism, whose primary occupation is the raising of livestock.
"2015, Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)https://web.archive.org/web/20151213095110/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/vultures-text As our truck weaves through flocks of sheep and goats, Virani explains how the Maasai have in recent years leased their land, which rings the northern section of the Masai Mara National Reserve, to conservancies established to protect wildlife by excluding pastoralists and their livestock."
- 1 Having features common to pastoralism.
"a pastoralist society"
Example
More examples"2015, Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)https://web.archive.org/web/20151213095110/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/vultures-text As our truck weaves through flocks of sheep and goats, Virani explains how the Maasai have in recent years leased their land, which rings the northern section of the Masai Mara National Reserve, to conservancies established to protect wildlife by excluding pastoralists and their livestock."
Etymology
From pastoral + -ist.
More for "pastoralist"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.