English Explanatory Dictionary

gatherer

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A person who gathers things.
  2. A person who primarily gathers in a hunter-gatherer social system.
  3. A person who collects rent or taxes.
  4. An attachment to a sewing machine for making gathers in the cloth.
  5. A worker who collects molten glass on the end of a rod preparatory to blowing.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-gatherer.wav

Word forms

gatherer gatherers

Etymology

From Middle English gaderere, gaderare, equivalent to gather + -er.

Derived words

firewood-gatherer hunter-gatherer newsgatherer pure gatherer snow-gatherer taxgatherer tax gatherer tollgatherer

Translations

Arabic: جَانٍ Czech: sběrač Danish: samler Finnish: keräilijä French: cueilleur French: glaneur French: glaneuse French: ramasseur French: ramasseuse German: Sammler Hungarian: szedő Irish: tiomsaitheoir Irish: bailitheoir Italian: coglitore Kyrgyz: жыйноочу Latin: legulus Manx: teiyder Portuguese: coletor Romanian: adunător Russian: собира́тель Russian: собира́тельница Serbo-Croatian: ску̀пља̄ч Serbo-Croatian: саку̀пља̄ч Serbo-Croatian: skùpljāč Serbo-Croatian: sakùpljāč Spanish: recolector Swedish: samlare Ukrainian: збира́ч Ukrainian: збира́чка
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