Settler

Quick meaning: Settler is a noun meaning Someone who settles in a new location; especially one who takes up residence in a previously uninhabited place.

Meaning

Someone who settles in a new location; especially one who takes up residence in a previously uninhabited place.

More Meanings

1. Someone who decides or settles something, such as a dispute.
2. (colloquial) That which settles or finishes, such as a blow that decides a contest.
3. (British) The person in a betting shop who calculates the winnings.
4. A drink which settles the stomach, especially a bitter drink, often a nightcap.
5. A vessel, such as a tub, in which something, such as pulverized ore suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle.

Example Sentences

the first settlers of New England

First, there will be little reaction in the settler so that the concentrations of soluble constituents in the recycle stream are the same as those in the bioreactor.

[H]aving got out the rum bottle for a quiet “settler” just as the victim of his fascinations glided through the carefully adjusted door, he had been persuaded to go on drinking.

The law, which let settlers stay on private land if they had built there without knowing the property belonged to Palestinians or had done so at the state’s direction, was backed by Israel’s most right-wing governing coalition to date.

Word Forms

• settlers

Synonyms for settler

Depending on context, synonyms include colonist.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include colonist, immigration, immigrant, resettlement, settling, colonization.

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