different between agriculture vs pastoralist

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin agricultura, from ager (“field”) + cultura (“cultivation”). See acre and culture.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æ????k?lt??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æ????k?lt??/

Noun

agriculture (plural agricultures)

1. The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of livestock

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French

Etymology

From agri- +? culture, or borrowed from Latin agricultura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.??i.kyl.ty?/

Noun

agriculture f (plural agricultures)

1. agriculture

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Further reading

• “agriculture” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• agriculteur

Middle French

Noun

agriculture f (uncountable)

1. agriculture

English

Etymology

pastoral +? -ist

Adjective

pastoralist (comparative more pastoralist, superlative most pastoralist)

1. Having features common to pastoralism.

   a pastoralist society

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Noun

pastoralist (plural pastoralists)

1. (agriculture) A person involved in pastoralism, whose primary occupation is the raising of livestock
   • 2015, Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)[1]

     As our truck weaves through flocks of sheep and goats, Virani explains how the Maasai have in recent years leased their land, which rings the northern section of the Masai Mara National Reserve, to conservancies established to protect wildlife by excluding pastoralists and their livestock.