Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1793, from pastoral + -ist.
Wiktionary
a. Having features common to pastoralism. n. A person involved in pastoralism, whose primary occupation is the raising of livestock
Wikipedia
Pastoralist may refer to:
- Pastoralism - raising livestock on natural pastures
- Pastoral farming - settled farmers who grow crops to feed their livestock
- People who keep or raise sheep, sheep farming
Usage examples of "pastoralist".
He could easily have been mistaken for a pastoralist or a grazier with his tanned complexion except that he was wearing khaki clothing.
That was a serious enough emergency from any pastoralist to be in deep sure trouble.
The pastoralists and seminomadic tribespeople who had once driven their camels and cattle through the area had another view, but it did not appear to count for much because their lifestyles disfranchised them from the politics of a nation struggling desperately to modernize.
Industrialization and agricultural recovery were far more pressing concerns than the doubtful proprietary rights of either the Moslem nomads or the Sambusai pastoralists who often used this land.
The making of dams, the private and public provision of water in the underground reservoirs by artesian bores, and the facilities for travelling stock by such ways have all lessened the risks which the pioneer pastoralists ran bravely in the old days.
The government introduced a policy allowing large areas of the country to be claimed by European farmers and grants of land were given to the pastoralists to raise sheep and cattle without any provision being made for the traditional owners, the Mardudjara people.
The pastoralists and graziers of the Pilbara region were hospitable towards the Mardudjara people.
Best guess, back in the twentieth, was that it was a mutation of cowpox, probably started among pastoralists somewhere.
And they must have disturbed even less the peasants and pastoralists who dwelt and throve on the banks of the Niger and out across the plains beyond.
In a world where a nation of camel-riding pastoralists can be the fourth-largest nuclear power, anything can happen.
On the edge of town they might glimpse Mohammed and Moosha Khan leading their strings of laden camels to supply the pastoralists and Kimberley goldfields.
As pastoralists and nomads they always moved on, seeking grazing for their herds, more plunder and women.
The pastoralists and seminomadic tribespeople who had once driven their camels and cattle through the area had another view, but it did not appear to count for much because their lifestyles disfranchised them from the politics of a nation struggling desperately to modernize.
Bashkir pastoralists had risen up in a series of revolts against the Tsarist state, as Russian settlers had begun to move on to their ancient grazing lands.
Or maybe steal a Matrioshka brain that's succumbed to senile dementia and turn it back into planetary biomes with cores of diamond-phase computronium to fulfil some kind of demented pastoralist nostalgia trip.