noun
Meaning 1
A person who gathers things.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
gatherer
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noun
Meaning 2
A person who gathers things.
A person who primarily gathers in a hunter-gatherer social system.
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noun
Meaning 3
A person who collects rent or taxes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business
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noun
Meaning 4
An attachment to a sewing machine for making gathers in the cloth.
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Topics: business, manufacturing, textiles
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noun
Meaning 5
A worker who collects molten glass on the end of a rod preparatory to blowing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: arts, crafts, glassblowing, hobbies, lifestyle
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noun
Meaning 6
a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: collector, accumulator
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: worker
Narrower terms: conductor, gleaner, rent collector, Gardner, Isabella Stewart Gardner
noun
Meaning 7
a person who gathers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- they were a society of hunters and gatherers
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
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Broader terms: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
History
Etymology
From Middle English gaderere, gaderare, equivalent to gather + -er.
Across languages
Translations
37 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: جَانٍ (jānin) — person who gathers things
- Czech: sběrač — person who gathers things
- Danish: samler — person who gathers things
- Finnish: keräilijä — person who gathers things
- French: cueilleur — person who gathers things
- French: glaneur — person who gathers things
- French: glaneuse — person who gathers things
- French: ramasseur — person who gathers things
- French: ramasseuse — person who gathers things
- German: Sammler — person who gathers things
- Hungarian: szedő — person who gathers things
- Irish: tiomsaitheoir — person who gathers things
- Irish: bailitheoir — person who gathers things
- Italian: coglitore — person who gathers things
- Kyrgyz: жыйноочу (jıynoocu) — person who gathers things
- Latin: legulus — person who gathers things
- Manx: teiyder — person who gathers things
- Portuguese: coletor — person who gathers things
- Romanian: adunător — person who gathers things
- Russian: собира́тель (sobirátelʹ) — person who gathers things
- Russian: собира́тельница (sobirátelʹnica) — person who gathers things
- Serbo-Croatian: ску̀пља̄ч — person who gathers things
- Serbo-Croatian: саку̀пља̄ч — person who gathers things
- Serbo-Croatian: skùpljāč — person who gathers things
- Serbo-Croatian: sakùpljāč — person who gathers things
- Spanish: recolector — person who gathers things
- Swedish: samlare — person who gathers things
- Ukrainian: збира́ч (zbyráč) — person who gathers things
- Ukrainian: збира́чка (zbyráčka) — person who gathers things
- Finnish: vuokrankerääjä — person who collects rent or taxes
- Finnish: veronkantaja — person who collects rent or taxes
- Kyrgyz: жыйноочу (jıynoocu) — person who collects rent or taxes
- Portuguese: coletor — person who collects rent or taxes
- Russian: сбо́рщик (sbórščik) — person who collects rent or taxes
- Russian: сбо́рщица (sbórščica) — person who collects rent or taxes
- Ukrainian: збира́ч (zbyráč) — person who collects rent or taxes
- Ukrainian: збира́чка (zbyráčka) — person who collects rent or taxes