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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun settler has 3 senses
- settler(n = noun.person) colonist - a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country; Array is a kind of migrant, migrator
- settler(n = noun.person) Array - a negotiator who settles disputes; Array is a kind of negotiant, negotiator, treater
- settler(n = noun.person) Array - a clerk in a betting shop who calculates the winnings; Array is a kind of clerk
has particulars: pilgrim, pilgrim father, pioneer, sourdough, homesteader, nester, squatter, endecott, endicott, john endecott, john endicott, anne hutchinson, hutchinson, minnewit, minuit, peter minnewit, peter minuit, miles standish, myles standish, standish, roger williams, williams, edward winslow, winslow
Derived forms verb settle4, verb settle21
Derived form verb settle2
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settler, n.
- One who settles, becomes fixed, established, etc. [1913 Webster]
- Especially, one who establishes himself in a new region or a colony; a colonist; a planter; as, the first settlers of New England. [1913 Webster]
- That which settles or finishes; hence, a blow, etc., which settles or decides a contest. [1913 Webster]
- A vessel, as a tub, in which something, as pulverized ore suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
settler, n. a person who goes to settle in a new country or place; an early colonist.
THESAURUS
settler
KO, Maecenas, Santa Claus, almoner, almsgiver, angel, arrival, arriviste, assignor, awarder, backer, bestower, cheerful giver, clincher, colonial, colonist, colonizer, comer, conclusive argument, conferrer, consignor, contributor, crusher, death stroke, deathblow, donator, donor, emigrant, end-all, ender, entrant, fairy godmother, feoffor, final stroke, financer, finisher, finishing stroke, floorer, frontiersman, funder, gate-crasher, giver, grantor, greenhorn, homesteader, immigrant, imparter, in-migrant, incomer, intruder, kayo, kayo punch, knockdown argument, knockout, knockout blow, lady bountiful, last dab, nester, new arrival, new boy, newcomer, novus homo, parvenu, patron, patroness, philanthropist, pioneer, planter, precursor, presenter, quietus, recruit, rookie, sockdolager, sooner, squatter, stopper, stowaway, subscriber, sugar daddy, supporter, tenderfoot, testate, testator, testatrix, upstart, visitant, visitor, vouchsaferROGET THESAURUS
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Inhabitant
N inhabitant, resident, residentiary, dweller, indweller, addressee, occupier, occupant, householder, lodger, inmate, tenant, incumbent, sojourner, locum tenens, commorant, settler, squatter, backwoodsman, colonist, islander, denizen, citizen, burgher, oppidan, cockney, cit, townsman, burgess, villager, cottager, cottier, cotter, compatriot, backsettler, boarder, hotel keeper, innkeeper, habitant, paying guest, planter, native, indigene, aborigines, autochthones, Englishman, John Bull, newcomer, aboriginal, American, Caledonian, Cambrian, Canadian, Canuck, downeaster, Scot, Scotchman, Hibernian, Irishman, Welshman, Uncle Sam, Yankee, Brother Jonathan, garrison, crew, population, people, colony, settlement, household, mir, indigenous, native, natal, autochthonal, autochthonous, British, English, American, Canadian, Irish, Scotch, Scottish, Welsh, domestic, domiciliated, domiciled, naturalized, vernacular, domesticated, domiciliary, in the occupation of, garrisoned by, occupied by.
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