noun
- a member of a people who move seasonally with their livestock but maintain a permanent base or settlement
Usage: anthropology
Examples
- The seminomads returned to their winter village after months of grazing their herds in the mountains.
- Unlike true nomads, seminomads maintain permanent dwellings they return to seasonally.
- Many seminomad communities combine livestock herding with small-scale agriculture.
- The seminomads followed ancient migration routes between their summer and winter pastures.
- Anthropologists study how seminomad societies balance mobility with settlement.
- Climate change has disrupted traditional seminomad migration patterns.