forager
/ˈfɑɹ.ɪd͡ʒ.ɚ/
Meanings
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A person who gathers food, especially wild food, by hunting, gathering nuts and fruits, or by trapping.
- "John is a forager who collects wild berries, mushrooms, and nuts."
- "Sarah is a forager who gathers wild fruits, edible plants, and mushrooms to sell at the market."
Pronunciation
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/ˈfɑɹ.ɪd͡ʒ.ɚ/
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Rhymes
Words rhyming with foragerforage , marrow , warfare , farewell , mallow , allow , allows , alows
Homophones
Words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling,-
hoe-moe-fan
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forty-age-er
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for-eign-for-ager
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for-ward-for-ager
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four-age-er
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four-and-twenty-for-ager
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fourscore-and-twenty-for-ager
Variants
List of all variants of forager that leads to same resultforage , foraged , forager , foragers , forages , foraging
Etymology
origin and the way in which meanings have changed throughout history.The word 'forager' comes from the Old French word 'forage', which means 'act of driving animals into a place where they can be easily caught or killed' or 'digging, boring, or excavating'. Over time, the meaning of the word 'forager' evolved to refer to a person who gathers food, especially wild food, by hunting, gathering nuts and fruits, or by trapping.
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