Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who settles in a new region, especially a region that has few occupants or that is occupied by people of a different ethnic or religious group.
- noun One who settles or decides something.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That which seltles or decides anything definitely; that which gives a quietus: as, that argument was a settler; his last blow was a settler.
- noun One who settles; particularly, one who fixes his residence in a new colony.
- noun A separator; a tub, pan, vat, or tank in which a separation can be effected by settling.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who settles, becomes fixed, established, etc.
- noun Especially, one who establishes himself in a new region or a colony; a colonist; a planter.
- noun colloq. That which settles or finishes; hence, a blow, etc., which settles or decides a contest.
- noun A vessel, as a tub, in which something, as pulverized ore suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun someone who
settles in a newlocation , especially one who makes a previouslyuninhabited place hishome - noun someone who
decides something, such as adispute - noun UK the person in a
betting shop whocalculates thewinnings - noun A drink which settles the stomach, especially a bitter drink, often a
nightcap . - noun A
vessel , such as atub , in which something, such as pulverizedore suspended in aliquid , is allowed tosettle . - noun colloquial That which
settles orfinishes , such as a blow that decides a contest.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country
- noun a negotiator who settles disputes
- noun a clerk in a betting shop who calculates the winnings
Etymologies
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Examples
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To date the role of the NGK in settler society and in colonizing the Cape has received little attention from historians.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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Antoinetta Campher's story and family tree are another example of a slave's descendants making space for themselves in settler society.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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Belonging in settler society was not necessarily about being "white," or being descended only from Europeans, but rather about claiming relationships in kin networks, which could be accomplished by marriage.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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This process was contested violently; Khoisan resisted displacement, the appropriation of their livestock and hunting grounds, involuntary servitude in settler households, and subordination in colonial society.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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The loan farm system enabled continuity in settler land claims.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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References to Hottentot servants in settler households document one path to survival. 42 Limited loan farm registration in frontier areas indicates another strategy for working within encroaching colonial economic structures.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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Subordinated women — slaves, freed slaves, or Khoisan — with European husbands, whether church sanctioned or common-law, could live as settler wives. 28 Their children were often included, unremarked upon, in settler family networks. 29
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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Both Basson and Bergh became prominent landowners; their many children married across the ranks of settler society — wealth and status evidently outweighed race to determine belonging in settler society at the end of the seventeenth century. 30
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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How many generations of these undisturbed forest trees grew and decayed before being seen by the first settler is a matter of pure speculation; how this primeval forest appeared to the hardy pioneers who cleared it from the sites of our present homes, must be to us a subject for interesting reflections.
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How many generations of these undisturbed forest trees grew and decayed before being seen by the first settler is a matter of pure speculation; how this primeval forest appeared to the hardy pioneers who cleared it from the sites of our present homes, must be to us a subject for interesting reflections.
ymedad commented on the word settler
As, indeed, the term "settler" is most usually employed in a pejorative sense, meaning one who is foreign and does not belong, my noun for a Jewish resident in Judea and Samaria, portions of the Jewish national homeland not under Israel's political sovereignty is "revenant", an adoption of the French revenir which means to return after a long absence. Oh, and a "settlement" is just but a "community", or a "town", a "village", a "city".
December 21, 2009
seanahan commented on the word settler
In America, I would say that settler has a generally positive connotation.
December 21, 2009
gangerh commented on the word settler
Would the settled agree?
December 21, 2009
milosrdenstvi commented on the word settler
If it is somewhere, say, like Catan.
December 21, 2009
ruzuzu commented on the word settler
Ah, yes, Milosrdenstvi--nothing like building roads to stock up on sheep and ore.
December 21, 2009