settled
- adjective
- /ˈsɛtld/
- The family felt settled after unpacking their belongings and making the house their own.
It's different from the gentrification of a more settled, slightly older population.
- It's different from the gentrification of a more settled, slightly older population.
- And so it's been very hard to like decorate and feel settled and have those traditions anymore.
- My mom came to me and she said also you are settled.
- Like I've just left a a really good job where I was settled.
- Well, I'll say this, it's hard to know how you'll behave until you're in a settled place.
Examples
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And so it's been very hard to like decorate and feel settled and have those traditions anymore.
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Once she found a job she loved, she felt more settled and ready to build a life in the town.
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For someone like me, I'd say I'm settled and pretty calm.
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It was a bit much, but I got settled in and then I went out looking.
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And as she's getting settled, she sees the woman again.
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Well, I'll say this, it's hard to know how you'll behave until you're in a settled place.
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After years of moving from city to city, they finally feel settled in their new home.
Synonyms
A place where people or animals live
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Compounds
How Settled
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Morphology
Etymology
Settled comes from an old word for 'sit' or 'seat', like the word seat. To be 'settled' in one place is to have 'taken a seat' there — a fixed home and routine.