1. pastoralist - Noun
2. pastoralist - Adjective
pastoralist (comparative more pastoralist, superlative most pastoralist)
Having features common to pastoralism.
a pastoralist society
pastoralist (plural pastoralists)
(agriculture) A person involved in pastoralism, whose primary occupation is the raising of livestock
Horn of Africa in 1420 While further research is needed to precisely comprehend their origins, the Oromo are believed to have originally adhered to a pastoralist nomadic and/or semi- agriculturalist lifestyle. Source: Internet
Maasai are pastoralist and have resisted the urging of the Tanzanian and Kenyan governments to adopt a more sedentary lifestyle. Source: Internet
Eerdmans Encyclopedia of Christianity, Isaac, p. 744. The stories of Isaac, like other patriarchal stories of Genesis, are generally believed to have "their origin in folk memories and oral traditions of the early Hebrew pastoralist experience." Source: Internet
James Isdell, an east Kimberley pastoralist and member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, proposed the stock route arguing that ticks would not survive in the dry desert climate on the trip south. Source: Internet
The Arameans were a Northwest Semitic semi-nomadic and pastoralist people who originated in what is now modern Syria (Biblical Aram) during the Late Bronze Age and the early Iron Age. Source: Internet
Rock paintings at Wadi Mathendous and the mountainous region of Jebel Acacus are the best sources of information about prehistoric Libya, and the pastoralist culture that settled there. Source: Internet