Settler

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Character 7
Hyphenation set tler
Pronunciations /ˈsɛt.lə/

Definitions and meanings of "Settler"

What do we mean by settler?

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. 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. 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, becomes fixed, established, etc. noun

Especially, one who establishes himself in a new region or a colony; a colonist; a planter. noun

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. noun

Someone who settles in a new location, especially one who makes a previously uninhabited place his home noun

Someone who decides something, such as a dispute noun

The person in a betting shop who calculates the winnings noun

A drink which settles the stomach, especially a bitter drink, often a nightcap. noun

A vessel, such as a tub, in which something, such as pulverized ore suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle. noun

That which settles or finishes, such as a blow that decides a contest. 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 noun

Someone who settles in a new location, especially one who takes up residence in a previously uninhabited place; a colonist.

Someone who decides or settles something, such as a dispute.

That which settles or finishes, such as a blow that decides a contest.

The person in a betting shop who calculates the winnings.

A drink which settles the stomach, especially a bitter drink, often a nightcap.

A vessel, such as a tub, in which something, such as pulverized ore suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle.

Used in New Orleans to mean an older male or female love interest. Usually males use it to refer to women 5 or more years older than themselves. Urban Dictionary

A bird whos not drop dead gorgeous but you'd still consider taking home at the end of the night. Urban Dictionary

Within a successful, seemingly stable relationship, the settler refers to the "better half", who in essence settles with their partner. This person tends to be either more attractive, wealthier, smarter, personable or some other quality that would seemingly make their partner look inferior, to the extent that people begin to question why they would even date in the first place. The opposite of a reacher Urban Dictionary

A person who's dating someone not on their level Urban Dictionary

A unit in the Civilization series of games that allows you to settle a city on the map. Urban Dictionary

Deliberately impolite way of referring to white people, usually used to insult/dismiss someone or to recontextualize a discussion. Primarily used by Native Americans and Black Americans. Urban Dictionary

When two ugly people are together, settling for one another because that's the best they can get. Urban Dictionary

Name given to someone when they are addicted to the computer game Settlers. The person carries a laptop around campus - ready to play at any time. The person may ask you to play with them at random and often awkward times. This character may form a nightly gang of Settlers who enjoy playing the game for hours at a time. Urban Dictionary

The girl that is the easy, last resort fuck at the bar or party. You go around the party trying to hook up with some real hot chicks that you haven't had sex with yet and if you can't get them to come back to your place tonight you always have the settler to fall back on because you know she is always down to get slammed. Urban Dictionary

Someone who could excel in school, but instead settles for average due to lack of effort. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Settler

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The word "settler" in example sentences

To date the role of the NGK in settler society and in colonizing the Cape has received little attention from historians. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The loan farm system enabled continuity in settler land claims. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Antoinetta Campher's story and family tree are another example of a slave's descendants making space for themselves in settler society. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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 ❋ Unknown (2008)

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 ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2003)

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. (p. 2) ❋ Unknown (2003)

At the Imperial Conference of 1926 there was a resolution passed saying it was impracticable, owing to financial, economic and political considerations, to promote mass movements of population, and that resolution was endorsed by the Conference that sat in 1930 and they pointed out also that the primary consideration should be, not the conditions in the country which the settler is leaving but the absorptive capacity of the country to which he is proceeding. ❋ Unknown (1936)

We agree that the most desirable settler is the settler on the land. ❋ Unknown (1928)

Now he wanted to build a saw mill and a man named Marshall, a settler from the East, undertook to build it for him. ❋ Henrietta Elizabeth (1917)

According to a witness at the killing, youths said they were attacking Miss Biehl because she was a "settler" -- the target of the controversial PAC slogan "one settler, one bullet". ❋ Unknown (1993)

About 1644 his ancestor Klaes Martensen van Roosevelt came to New Amsterdam as a "settler" -- the euphemistic name for an immigrant who came over in the steerage of a sailing ship in the seventeenth century instead of the steerage of a steamer in the nineteenth century. ❋ Roosevelt, Theodore (1913)

Amsterdam as a "settler" -- the euphemistic name for an immigrant who came over in the steerage of a sailing ship in the seventeenth century instead of the steerage of a steamer in the nineteenth century. ❋ Theodore Roosevelt (1888)

Brandon Huntley, 31, from Cape Town, said he had been stabbed three times by robbers, who called him a 'White dog' and a 'settler' - a reference to South Africa's colonial past based on racial apartheid.

You should have no one speaking on your behalf who could in any way be defined as a "settler" - no recent arrivers and no long-time first-founders. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I went to Harrahs last night and picked up on a settler. She divorced, a nurse at [Tulane], and she fine as [a broad] out the [Nolia]. ❋ Mr. 225 (2008)

Ohhh shes well wit.[Yeah but] shes [a munter].[what do you think] of her?shes ok,a settler ❋ LazaRuss (2004)

Looking at the Janet Jackson and Jermaine Dupri relationship, it is painfully clear that Janet ([Ms. Jackson], [if you're nasty]) is a [settler]. ❋ BurningRave (2010)

[Megan]. Fucking. [Nelson]. is a [settler] and she knows it ❋ NotASettler (2015)

The Pope: In my [civ] 6 game last night, a [Barbarian] captured my [settler]. ❋ GhandiNukeBoy (2019)

This country-club bro didn't [tip on] a two grand tab because the bar didn't have any Johnny [Walker] Blue. Ugh, fucking [settlers]. ❋ Torontonium (2019)

Tim is ugly and [lonely]. [Mary] is ugly and lonely. They [settle] for one another. Wow! Those are some settlers. ❋ Nonsettler (2010)

"Did you see Settlers today?" "Settlers [asked] me to [play] [with him]." ❋ Shuttlecock 9 (2009)

Jon: Amanda is the [settler] tonight. She's such a [slampig]. Ed: What's a settler? Jon: Well if you can't bring any other slut back you gotta [settle] for her. ❋ Lunchboxx10 (2010)

"I probably could have gotten an A in [Biology], but instead I got [a B] cause I'm such a [settler]." ❋ SteadfastSteve (2010)

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