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settler en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈsɛt.lɚ/ (General-American)
• /ˈsɛt.l̩.ɚ/ (General-American)
• /ˈsɛt.l̩.ə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈsɛt.lə/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Etymology tree English settle Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English settler From settle + -er.

Meanings

1. Someone who settles in a new location; especially one who takes up residence in a previously uninhabited place.
   • It was the racist, settler colonialism that created whiteness, that created blackness, half-caste, quarter-caste, octoroon, that saw mixed-race people as a third race. […] This belief was one of the drivers of the ‘protection’ laws that led to the settler government’s theft of children. 2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2021:
   • the first settlers of New England
   • The law, which let settlers stay on private land if they had built there without knowing the property belonged to Palestinians or had done so at the state’s direction, was backed by Israel’s most right-wing governing coalition to date. 2020 June 9, David M. Halbfinger, Adam Rasgon, “Israel Court Rejects Law Legalizing Thousands of Settlement Homes”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 01 Nov 2020:
2. Someone who decides or settles something, such as a dispute.
   • The paddles were enormously versatile, serving as radio-antenna masts, shovels, ice prods, snow knives, and potential argument settlers—whoever had one in his hand at the time would win. 1989 May, Jeff MacInnis, “Braving the Northwest Passage”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 592:
3. (colloquial) That which settles or finishes, such as a blow that decides a contest.
4. (UK) The person in a betting shop who calculates the winnings.
5. A drink which settles the stomach, especially a bitter drink, often a nightcap.
   • [H]aving got out the rum bottle for a quiet “settler” just as the victim of his fascinations glided through the carefully adjusted door, he had been persuaded to go on drinking. 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 80:
6. A vessel, such as a tub, in which something, such as pulverized ore suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle.
   • First, there will be little reaction in the settler so that the concentrations of soluble constituents in the recycle stream are the same as those in the bioreactor. 2011, C. P. Leslie Grady, Jr.; Glen T. Daigger; Nancy G. Love, Biological Wastewater Treatment, Third Edition, page 189:

Forms

Deriveds

settlerist · backsettler · outsettler · settlerism · settlerhood · tomahawk settler · informal settler · antisettler · mixer-settler · settlerdom · cosettler · Settla · nonsettler · settler colonialism

Descendants

setla

Relateds

settlement

Translations (80)

ru поселе́нец (someone who settles in a new location) · it colonizzatore (someone who settles in a new location) · pt colono (someone who settles in a new location) · ru поселе́нка (someone who settles in a new location) · de Schlichter (someone who decides something, such as a dispute) · fa آبادگر (someone who settles in a new location) · sw setla (someone who settles in a new location) · it colonizzatrice (someone who settles in a new location) · sh naseljènica (someone who settles in a new location) · de Ansiedlerin (someone who settles in a new location) · it digestivo (drink that settles the stomach) · hu telepes (someone who settles in a new location) · ro colonist (someone who settles in a new location) · uk поселе́нець (someone who settles in a new location) · ar مُعَمِّر (someone who settles in a new location) · he מִתְנַחֵל (someone who settles in a new location) · la colōnus (someone who settles in a new location) · de Kolonistin (someone who settles in a new location) · la agripeta (someone who settles in a new location) · fi digestiivi (drink that settles the stomach) · uk поселе́нка (someone who settles in a new location) · mr वसाहतकार (someone who settles in a new location) · ar مُسْتَعْمِر (someone who settles in a new location) · mk населеник (someone who settles in a new location) · sw mlowezi (someone who settles in a new location) · ru колони́ст (someone who settles in a new location) · es colona (someone who settles in a new location) · fi uudisasukas (someone who settles in a new location) · de Siedlerin (someone who settles in a new location) · fi uudisraivaaja (someone who settles in a new location) · be пасяле́нец (someone who settles in a new location) · sv bosättare (someone who settles in a new location) · de Schlichterin (someone who decides something, such as a dispute) · bg засе́лник (someone who settles in a new location) · nl kolonist (someone who settles in a new location) · cmn 定居者 (someone who settles in a new location) · ar مُسْتَوْطِن (someone who settles in a new location) · be пасяле́нка (someone who settles in a new location) · fr colon (someone who settles in a new location) · pdt Aunsiedla (someone who settles in a new location) · es colonizador (someone who settles in a new location) · nb bosetter (someone who settles in a new location) · cmn 殖民者 (someone who settles in a new location) · de Ansiedler (someone who settles in a new location) · cmn 開拓者 /开拓者 (someone who settles in a new location) · sl naseljenka (someone who settles in a new location) · nb nybygger (someone who settles in a new location) · bg арбитър (someone who decides something, such as a dispute) · fi sovittelija (someone who decides something, such as a dispute) · es colonizadora (someone who settles in a new location) · el διακανονιστής (someone who decides something, such as a dispute) · pl osadnik (someone who settles in a new location) · sh насељѐнӣк (someone who settles in a new location) · it colona (someone who settles in a new location) · pl osiedleniec (someone who settles in a new location) · ja 開拓者 (someone who settles in a new location) · sh naseljènīk (someone who settles in a new location) · la colōna (someone who settles in a new location) · ja 入植者 (someone who settles in a new location) · de Siedler (someone who settles in a new location) · pt colona (someone who settles in a new location) · ru колони́стка (someone who settles in a new location) · grc ἄποικος (someone who settles in a new location) · sh насељѐница (someone who settles in a new location) · bg засе́лничка (someone who settles in a new location) · nn nybyggjar (someone who settles in a new location) · el άποικος (someone who settles in a new location) · es colono (someone who settles in a new location) · el έποικος (someone who settles in a new location) · sk osadník (someone who settles in a new location) · de Kolonist (someone who settles in a new location) · ca colon (someone who settles in a new location) · grc ἔποικος (someone who settles in a new location) · cs osadník (someone who settles in a new location) · sl naseljenec (someone who settles in a new location) · hy նորաբնակ (someone who settles in a new location) · el διαπυκτικόν (drink that settles the stomach) · it colono (someone who settles in a new location) · sv nybyggare (someone who settles in a new location) · ro colonistă (someone who settles in a new location)