settlement house
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- noun
- /ˈsɛtəlmənt haʊs/
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casa de asentamiento
- Every Saturday, the community gathers at the settlement house for activities like art classes and sports.
- settlement house movement
- Jewish settlement house
- settlement house workers
Examples
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Newspaper articles about settlement house activities also served to inform women of the availability of these services.
Academic text (1994) -
She runs a settlement house down in the Village.
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l have to report to the settlement house.
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The team then takes the nervous visitor to a settlement house, which will become home for several weeks.
Fiction book (2002) -
The settlement houses provided structure and activities for large numbers of people in poor neighborhoods.
Academic text (1992) -
The settlement house movement sought to alleviate distress by addressing underlying social ills: poverty, unemployment, and economic inequality.
Academic text (2006) -
The local settlement house offers free tutoring and job training for residents in need.
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The mission of the settlement house is to provide essential services and support for families in the neighborhood.
Antonyms
How Supportive
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The parts 'settlement' (a community) and 'house' (a building) point toward a building associated with a community, so a learner could plausibly guess it refers to a community building. However, the specific institutional meaning — an urban social-service/community-centre with historical/social-reform connotations — is not fully predictable from the literal constituents, making the term only partially transparent.
Etymology
The term settlement house comes from people who moved into poor neighborhoods to 'settle' there and help local families with classes and care. The word settlement shows their living in the area and house is the place they used, so today a settlement house means 'a local center that offers services to the community'.