settlement
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈsɛtəlmənt/
- In fact, the team's findings support the theory that the Great Dismal Swamp was home to the largest Maroon settlement in all of North America.
- human settlement
- urban settlement
- rural settlements
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Watch on YouTubeWe have many settlements in the West Bank.
- We have many settlements in the West Bank.
- If I say settlements, have I now forgotten camps?
- Jamestown, the first hopefully hopes permanent settlement, British settlement in North America.
- It's the labyrinth with the first human settlements date back to prehistory.
- Jamestown, the first hopefully hoped permanent settlement, British settlement in North America.
- They have settlements, but they're not very urban settlements.
- They are housed in encampments that are built in settlements that exist in Darien already.
- The other comparison was to like Canada, New Zealand and Australia because they had sort of the frontier settlement background that we had the.
- So in Ireland settlement, English settlement happen more or less all over the country.
- And today you can see in your own eyes how our country looks like, you know, how our villages, how our settlements look like because of Russian aggression.
- So, so for settlements, potential tombs, suggestive structures that are on the Earth's surface.
Examples
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We have many settlements in the West Bank.
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Many families moved to the mountainous region to create a sustainable settlement.
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In those days, we had a large, international settlement.
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The Jewish settlement in Palestine has been hard at work.
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There were many obstacles to successful and permanent Spanish settlement in the region.
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We come to the Moore River Native Settlement.
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In Mexico City and its surrounding areas, illegal settlements are a critical problem.
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The warriors who defended the border probably lived in these settlements with their families.
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This is a Shaker settlement in Hancock, MA.
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According to historical records, the colonial settlement was abandoned sometime between 1763 and 1780.
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Synonyms
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1.0
A small group of houses in the countryside where people live and form a community
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1.5
A community with few people and few shops
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3.3
A group of people from one country who live together in another country and keep ties home
Compounds
- Formal
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A legal agreement that divides a couple's money and things after divorce or separation
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3.8
A community center in a poor city area offering classes and help to residents
- Specialized
An agreement where a very ill person sells a life insurance policy for money now
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Selling a life insurance policy to get money when very sick and likely to die soon
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Settlement comes from the simple word set, which means 'to put or place'. Think of people 'setting' houses and farms on land to form a community, so a settlement is a place where people live together.