Settler
['setlə] or ['sɛtlɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country.
(noun.) a clerk in a betting shop who calculates the winnings.
(noun.) a negotiator who settles disputes.
Inputed by Julio--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who settles, becomes fixed, established, etc.
(n.) Especially, one who establishes himself in a new region or a colony; a colonist; a planter; as, the first settlers of New England.
(n.) That which settles or finishes; hence, a blow, etc., which settles or decides a contest.
(n.) A vessel, as a tub, in which something, as pulverized ore suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle.
Typist: Millie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Colonist.
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Examples
- Rifle, the Weapon of the American Settler, and the Revolution. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- This can surely be regarded in the light of a settler. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The rifle with a long barrel and its flint-lock was a favourite weapon of the American settler. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- To the west of the thirteen states stretched limitless lands into which settlers were now pushing in ever-increasing numbers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Settlers in the newer portions of the country are often deprived of many comforts which are easily accessible in long-settled places. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- All those colonies had established themselves in countries inhabited by savage and barbarous nations, who easily gave place to the new settlers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Well, we'll have to get more settlers, that's all. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Settlers, too, came from distant counties, some with an alarming novelty of skill, others with an offensive advantage in cunning. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The earliest French settlers in Canada were Basque, and Basque names are frequent among the French Canadians to this day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Britain was at peace and flushed with successes; it seemed an admirable opportunity for settling accounts with these recalcitrant settlers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To the expectation of finding gold and silver mines, those first settlers, too, joined that of discovering a north-west passage to the East Indies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He came of a line of resourceful, fearless Scotch-Irish settlers, bone of the bone and sinew of the sinew of those generations that laid the broad foundations of the United States. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Almost the first outspoken utterances against negro slavery came from German settlers in Pennsylvania. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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