The meaning of Settler

noun

A settler in or inhabitant of a colony.

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Earlier in our journey, we'd passed a signpost for colonia suiza, a town settled by colonists from …

noun

A person living in a country or area controlled politically by a more powerful country

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He arrived in maryland with the first american colonists in 1634.

noun

A country that sends settlers to a place and establishes political control over it.

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Portugal was a major colonizer in both brazil and parts of africa

noun

A man living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.

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The legendary frontiersman is wandering through the prairies of wyoming.

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A person who lives on the border between cultivated land (= land used to grow crops) and wild land, especially in the past in the us

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The book portrays him as a heroic frontiersman of the wild west.

noun

An inhabitant.

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The country dwellers and habitants of market towns and traditional villages keep away from the larg…

noun

A person who lives in a particular place

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Last year there were 130 murders for every 100,000 habitants in the city., farmland established by …

noun

Someone who goes to live and grow crops on land given by the government, especially in the past

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In the 1800s, thousands of homesteaders settled on the prairies of the western us.

noun

A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.

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They found it difficult to expel illegal immigrants

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A person who has come into a foreign country in order to live there

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My grandparents arrived here as immigrants from russia in 1910., his family immigrated to the unite…

noun

A person who has come to a country that is not their own in order to live there permanently

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Legal/illegal/undocumented immigrant arizona employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants face s…

noun

A person who has come to live in an area in which they have not grown up, especially in a close-knit rural community.

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An english incomer to orkney

combining form

Denoting a person with a specified level of income.

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Middle-incomer

noun

A person who has recently arrived in a place.

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She's a newcomer to the area

noun

A person who is among the first to explore or settle a new country or area.

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The decision came a month before the start of the winter olympics in utah and can be expected to pu…

verb

Develop or be the first to use or apply (a new method, area of knowledge, or activity).

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The technique was pioneered by a swiss doctor in the 1930s

proper noun

A series of american space probes launched between 1958 and 1973, two of which provided the first clear pictures of jupiter and saturn (1973–9).

noun

A person who purchases membership of a society, guild, or company. compare "redemption". in later use historical.

noun

An emigrant to america who paid for the passage by becoming an indentured servant on arrival.

noun

A person who redeems mortgaged property or land.

noun

A person who unlawfully occupies an uninhabited building or unused land.

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The police moved in and evicted the squatters

adjective

Short and thickset; disproportionately broad or wide.

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He was muscular and squat

noun

A person who lives in an empty building or area of land without the permission of the owner