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squatter (root: squat)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun squatter has 2 senses
- squatter(n = noun.person) homesteader, nester - someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it; Array is a kind of colonist, settler
- squatter(n = noun.person) Array - someone who settles on land without right or title; Array is a kind of interloper, intruder, trespasser
Derived form verb squat3
CIDE DICTIONARY
squatter, n.
- One who squats; [1913 Webster]"In such a tract, squatters and trespassers were tolerated to an extent now unknown." [1913 Webster]
- See
Squat snipe , under Squat. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
squatter, n.
1 a person who takes unauthorized possession of unoccupied premises.
2 Austral. a a sheep-farmer esp. on a large scale. b hist. a person who gets the right of pasturage from the government on easy terms.
3 a person who settles on new esp. public land without title.
4 a person who squats.
1 a person who takes unauthorized possession of unoccupied premises.
2 Austral. a a sheep-farmer esp. on a large scale. b hist. a person who gets the right of pasturage from the government on easy terms.
3 a person who settles on new esp. public land without title.
4 a person who squats.
THESAURUS
squatter
arriviste, colonial, colonist, colonizer, emigrant, gate-crasher, greenhorn, hirer, homesteader, immigrant, incumbent, intruder, leaseholder, lessee, lodger, nester, new arrival, new boy, newcomer, novus homo, occupant, occupier, parvenu, paying guest, pioneer, planter, precursor, recruit, renter, resident, rookie, roomer, settler, sooner, stowaway, sublessee, subtenant, tenant, tenant at sufferance, tenant for life, tenderfoot, underlessee, upstartROGET THESAURUS
squatter
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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