SETTLER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does settler mean? 

• SETTLER (noun)
  The noun SETTLER has 3 senses:

1. a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country

2. a negotiator who settles disputes

3. a clerk in a betting shop who calculates the winnings

  Familiarity information: SETTLER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SETTLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

colonist; settler

Hypernyms ("settler" is a kind of...):

migrant; migrator (traveler who moves from one region or country to another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "settler"):

Pilgrim; Pilgrim Father (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 of the first colonists or settlers in a new territory)

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)

Instance hyponyms:

Endecott; Endicott; John Endecott; John Endicott (born in England; in 1629 he became the founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1588-1665))

Anne Hutchinson; Hutchinson (American colonist (born in England) who was banished from Boston for her religious views (1591-1643))

Minnewit; Minuit; Peter Minnewit; Peter Minuit (Dutch colonist who bought Manhattan from the Native Americans for the equivalent of $24 (1580-1638))

Miles Standish; Myles Standish; Standish (English colonist in America; leader of the Pilgrims in the early days of the Plymouth Colony (1584-1656))

Roger Williams; Williams (English clergyman and colonist who was expelled from Massachusetts for criticizing Puritanism; he founded Providence in 1636 and obtained a royal charter for Rhode Island in 1663 (1603-1683))

Edward Winslow; Winslow (English colonial administrator who traveled to America on the Mayflower and served as the first governor of the Plymouth Colony (1595-1655))

Derivation:

settle (take up residence and become established)

settle (form a community)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A negotiator who settles disputes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("settler" is a kind of...):

negotiant; negotiator; treater (someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement))

Derivation:

settle (bring to an end; settle conclusively)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A clerk in a betting shop who calculates the winnings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("settler" is a kind of...):

clerk (an employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts))

Domain region:

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)

 Context examples 

The researchers say that the cancer first spread from Europe to the Americas around 500 years ago, when European settlers first arrived at the continent by sea.

(The curious tale of the cancer ‘parasite’ that sailed the seas, University of Cambridge)

If a ship's cook that was turning settler, Mas'r Davy, didn't make offers fur to marry Missis Gummidge, I'm Gormed—and I can't say no fairer than that!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This process would give lunar settlers access to oxygen for fuel and life support, as well as a wide range of metal alloys for in-situ manufacturing.

(Scientists Find Way to Extract Oxygen from Moon Dirt, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

“That's a settler for our military friend, at any rate,” said my aunt, on the way home.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I could not but observe that he had been peeling the lemons with his own clasp-knife, which, as became the knife of a practical settler, was about a foot long; and which he wiped, not wholly without ostentation, on the sleeve of his coat.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I told him. And as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler. He had casually conferred on me the freedom of the neighborhood.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)