different between nomadic vs pastoralist

English

Alternative forms

• nomadick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (nomadikós), equivalent to nomad (“a member of a society or class of herdsmen”) + -ic (“forming adjectives”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /n???mæd.?k/
• Rhymes: -æd?k

Adjective

nomadic (comparative more nomadic, superlative most nomadic)

1. Of or relating to nomads, whether
   1. (anthropology) Of or related to itinerant herdsmen
   2. (figuratively) Of or related to any habitually wandering person or animal

Synonyms

• (all): nomad
• (of or related to itinerant herdsmen): pastoral
• (habitually wandering): wandering, peripatetic, itinerant, itinerate, unsettled, vagabond, roving, drifting, roaming, wayfaring, vagrant, transient, rambling, peregrine, ambulatory, ambulant, erratic, errant, rootless, gypsy, floating, perambulatory, perambulant, discursive, meandering, ambling, footloose, prodigal

Translations

Anagrams

• coadmin, mandioc, monacid, monadic

English

Etymology

pastoral +? -ist

Adjective

pastoralist (comparative more pastoralist, superlative most pastoralist)

1. Having features common to pastoralism.

   a pastoralist society

Translations

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.