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set·tler

(sĕt′lər)

1. 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.

2. One who settles or decides something.

3. Law Variant of settlor.

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settler

(ˈsɛtlə)

a person who settles in a new country or a colony

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set•tler

(ˈsɛt lər, ˈsɛt l ər)

n.

1. a person or thing that settles.

2. a person who settles in a new country or area.

[1590–1600]

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Noun	1.	settler - a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country colonist migrant, migrator - traveler who moves from one region or country to another Pilgrim Father, Pilgrim - one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620 pioneer - one the first colonists or settlers in a new territory; "they went west as pioneers with only the possessions they could carry with them" sourdough - a settler or prospector (especially in western United States or northwest Canada and Alaska) homesteader, nester, squatter - someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it
	2.	settler - a negotiator who settles disputes negotiant, negotiator, treater - someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement)
	3.	settler - a clerk in a betting shop who calculates the winnings Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom clerk - an employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts)

settler

noun colonist, immigrant, pioneer, colonizer, frontiersman settlers from the Volga region

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Translations

مُسْتَوْطِن

osadník

bosætternybygger

Siedler

colonizador colono

colon colonisateur

telepes

landnemi

naseljenec

settler

[ˈsetləʳ] N → colonizador(a) m/f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

settler

[ˈsɛtlə^r] n → colon mset-to [ˈsɛttuː] n (= quarrel) → prise f de bec set-top box n → terminal m numérique

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

settler

n → Siedler(in) m(f)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

settler

[ˈsɛtləʳ] n → colonizzatore/trice

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settle

(ˈsetl) verb

1. to place in a position of rest or comfort. I settled myself in the armchair.

2. to come to rest. Dust had settled on the books.

3. to soothe. I gave him a pill to settle his nerves.

4. to go and live. Many Scots settled in New Zealand.

5. to reach a decision or agreement. Have you settled with the builders when they are to start work?; The dispute between management and employees is still not settled.

6. to pay (a bill).

ˈsettlement noun

1. an agreement. The two sides have at last reached a settlement.

2. a small community. a farming settlement.

ˈsettler noun

a person who settles in a country that is being newly populated. They were among the early settlers on the east coast of America.

settle down

1. to (cause to) become quiet, calm and peaceful. He waited for the audience to settle down before he spoke; She settled the baby down at last.

2. to make oneself comfortable. She settled (herself) down in the back of the car and went to sleep.

3. to begin to concentrate on something, eg work. He settled down to (do) his schoolwork.

settle in

to become used to and comfortable in new surroundings.

settle on

to agree about or decide.

settle up

to pay (a bill). He asked the waiter for the bill, and settled up.

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There goes a man to the sea-shore, with a spade and a bucket, to dig a mess of clams, which were a principal article of food with the first settlers. Scattered here and there are two or three dusky figures, clad in mantles of fur, with ornaments of bone hanging from their ears, and the feathers of wild birds in their coal-black hair.

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The bees, according to popular assertion, are migrating like the settlers, to the west.

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The face of the country, the climate as it was found by the whites, and the manners of the settlers, are described with a minuteness for which the author has no other apology than the force of his own recollections.

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The aborigines are always anxious to borrow the dogs from the farm-houses: the use of them, the offal when an animal is killed, and some milk from the cows, are the peace-offerings of the settlers, who push farther and farther towards the interior.

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They had been the settlers of thirteen separate and distinct English colonies, along the margin of the shore of the North American Continent; contiguously situated, but chartered by adventurers of characters variously diversified, including sectarians, religious and political, of all the classes which for the two preceding centuries had agitated and divided the people of the British islands--and with them were intermingled the descendants of Hollanders, Swedes, Germans, and French fugitives from the persecution of the revoker of the Edict of Nantes.

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In old times the settlers used to be astounded by the inroads of the northern Indians coming down upon them from this mountain rampart through some defile known only to themselves.

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We were Moors and Spaniards almost as often as we were British and Americans, or settlers and Indians.

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Of all the strange, uprooted people among the first settlers, those two men were the strangest and the most aloof.

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When they was Indian-fightin' up there with the Modoc Indians, a lot of the miners an' settlers took a hand.

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We can imagine, therefore, that among such folk a settler, of Aeolic origin like Hesiod, who clearly was well acquainted with the Ionian epos, would naturally see that the only outlet for his gifts lay in applying epic poetry to new themes acceptable to his hearers.

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Again, perhaps, Nature will try, with me for a first settler, and my house raised last spring to be the oldest in the hamlet.

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"You ar' an old settler, in these districts, then?" the emigrant rather remarked than enquired, with a mouth filled nearly to overflowing with the delicious homminy, prepared by his skilful, though repulsive spouse.