GATHERER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gatherer mean? 

• GATHERER (noun)
  The noun GATHERER has 2 senses:

1. a person who gathers

2. a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)

  Familiarity information: GATHERER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GATHERER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who gathers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

they were a society of hunters and gatherers

Hypernyms ("gatherer" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Derivation:

gather (look for (food) in nature)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

accumulator; collector; gatherer

Hypernyms ("gatherer" is a kind of...):

worker (a person who works at a specific occupation)

Domain category:

revenue enhancement; tax; taxation (charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gatherer"):

conductor (the person who collects fares on a public conveyance)

gleaner (someone who gathers something in small pieces (e.g. information) slowly and carefully)

rent collector (a person who goes from house to house collecting rents for the owner)

Instance hyponyms:

Gardner; Isabella Stewart Gardner (United States collector and patron of art who built a museum in Boston to house her collection and opened it to the public in 1903 (1840-1924))

 Context examples 

After that, populations grew rapidly, with extensive migration and mixture as many groups transitioned from hunter-gatherers to food producers over the last 10,000 years.

(Global human genome study reveals our complex evolutionary history, University of Cambridge)