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semi-noˈmadic, a. Anthrop.
[semi- 1 a.]
Of a people, way of life, etc.: partially nomadic and partially settled. Freq. applied to a social group that depends largely on seasonal pasturing.
1843J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man xxx. 316 The Kafirs are associated together in large communities under chiefs, or kings... They are semi-nomadic, although living in towns of considerable size..which they occasionally move. 1918G. Bell Let. 17 Mar. (1927) II. xvii. 450 They were men of the Ghazzi, a semi-nomadic tribe near Nasiriyeh. 1954Koestler Invisible Writing x. 110 The natives were left to their semi-nomadic existence. 1960J. Bright Hist. Israel ii. 73 The patriarchs..were semi-nomadic stockbreeders such as we know from the Tale of Sinuhe (twentieth century) or the Mari texts.
Hence semi-ˈnomad a. and n.
1948in D. Diringer Alphabet ii. iv. 277 Semi-nomad Arabs may have had their settlements round the natural wells from time immemorial. 1960J. Bright Hist. Israel ii. 72 The patriarchs are portrayed as seminomads living in tents. 1972Catholic Bibl. Q. Apr. 231 A seminomad sheep-farmer. |