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nomadism
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English
Etymology
Noun
nomadism (countable and uncountable, plural nomadisms)
- The way of life of a nomad or nomads.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 160:
- Like the Mesolithic age of 10,000-8000 B.C., the period 6000-4000 B.C. seems to be one of the fall of fortresses and the rise of pastoral nomadism.
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way of life of a nomad
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Catalan
Pronunciation
Noun
nomadism m (plural nomadisms)
Further reading
- “nomadism” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “nomadism” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French nomadisme. By surface analysis, nomad + -ism.
Noun
nomadism n (uncountable)
Declension
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