0 a farmer who breeds and takes care of animals, especially in Africa and Australia:
1 consisting of or relating to farmers who breed and take care of animals:
Pastoralist communities are fighting for survival.
The pastoralist development project receives millions of dollars from the World Bank.
Many pastoralists have been victims of devastating famines.
The pastoralists began raiding farms to restock their decimated herds.
The Barabaig are a pastoralist people.
The simple pastoralist diet is ideal for long-distance running.
Primitive pastoralist societies modified soil development by altering the vegetation by burning and grazing and causing erosion.
The link to pastoralism is consistent with the observation that one of the general characteristics of nomadic or seminomadic pastoralist societies is ancestor worship.
