What is another word for gatherer?

Pronunciation: [ɡˈaðəɹə] (IPA)

A gatherer is someone who collects or assembles things, often with a specific purpose in mind. Synonyms for gatherer include collector, compiler, gatherer, assembler, accumulator, editor, curator, archivist, repository developer, repository creator, and aggregator. Depending on the context, each of these terms might be more appropriate than others. For example, a collector might be someone who gathers stamps or coins, while an aggregator might be someone who collects news articles or social media posts. Regardless of the specific synonym used, however, all of these terms describe someone who brings things together in order to create a larger whole.

What are the hypernyms for Gatherer?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Gatherer?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

Usage examples for Gatherer

If they produce some pork and corn, butter and cheese, these are sold at the nearest market, and are of far too dainty a character for them to indulge in, since a certain amount of money must be raised somehow for the annual visit of the tax-gatherer.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
The toll-gatherer just now met me in the road and asked me why I was always worrying.
"Contemporary One-Act Plays Compiler: B. Roland Lewis"
Sir James M. Barrie George Middleton Althea Thurston Percy Mackaye Lady Augusta Gregor Eugene Pillot Anton Tchekov Bosworth Crocker Alfred Kreymborg Paul Greene Arthur Hopkins Paul Hervieu Jeannette Marks Oscar M. Wolff David Pinski Beulah Bornstead Herma
There was the chancellor, the keeper of the treasury, the chief tax-gatherer, the scribe with his subordinates; there were singers, male and female, the body-guard, and the servants.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker

Famous quotes with Gatherer

  • I am a true grower of turnips, and a gatherer of apples. No warrior whatever, save that I am needed thus for a while. My garden longs for me as much as I long for it.
    Lloyd Alexander
  • I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff.
    Henry Wotton
  • Light gatherer. You fell from a star into my lap, the soft lamp at the bedside mirrored in you, and now you shine like a snowgirl, a buttercup under a chin, the wide blue yonder you squeal at and fly in.
    Carol Ann Duffy
  • Before the War you took your secretary to Paris and called her your wife. Now, in order to wriggle through the tax-gatherer's net, you take your wife to Paris and call her your secretary.
    Stormont Mancroft
  • Intertribal aggression, escalating in some cultures to limited warfare, is common enough to be regarded as a general characteristic of hunter-gatherer social behavior.
    E. O. Wilson

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