settler
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈsɛtlər/
:
colono
- Thirteen years after the first Anglo-American settlers arrived in 1822, the Texas Revolution began.
- first settlers
- new settlers
- early settlers
Even within the Orthodox you have settlers which are very much to the right.
- Even within the Orthodox you have settlers which are very much to the right.
- But what his ceasefire maps leave unresolved will test politicians, settlers and refugees alike.
- And he said, you know, Ryan, remember this, pioneers get shot, but settlers get rich.
- They see it as a, a, a factual description of settler colonialism.
- So they came there as explorers or settlers.
- So they're above the Asian settlers, but they're below the descendant owners.
- How the how the settlers, first settlers in America, ever survived, God alone knows.
- McGregor had already sold land rights and floated his bonds long before the settlers boarded ships.
- As for settlers, Yep, he was going to send settlers.
- Now the land owners in Damascus or Beirut sold their holdings to Jewish settlers for exorbitant prices.
- Why was it important to include the POV of the settlers as well?
- So this is an encounter now doing English settlers and the native peoples frontiers are always violent.
Examples
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The historical site honors the contributions of settlers who transformed the land into a thriving town.
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Puritans... were strict and devout settlers, who came here to build a home, a place without sin.
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And the early English settlers who were called...
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The first settlers are buried here.
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Some of the earlier settlers claimed a monster lived in the rocks below this point.
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We now look at the roles that place played in shaping the settlers' identity.
Academic text (2008) -
There was also a picture of early settlers in the area in the late nineteenth century.
Fiction book (1996) -
The settlers established a new community in the wilderness, determined to build a better life.
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Many early settlers faced harsh conditions as they adjusted to their new environment.
Synonyms
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2.5
A person who moves to another country to live there for a long time
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4.4
A person who moves to live in a new colony from another country
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4.4
A person who is among the first to move to and prepare new land
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6.9
A person who moves to empty land and works it so the government lets them own it
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3.8
A person who leaves their country to live in another country
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6.7
A person who goes to another land and takes control of its people and land
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8.6
A person who left their country to live in another, often for political reasons
A farmer who lives on and works land in ancient Rome
How Permanent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word settler comes from settle, a word related to seat that once meant 'to put in a seat' and 'to make a home'. So a settler is someone who takes a new 'seat' in a place and makes it their home.