settler

IPA: sˈɛtʌɫɝ

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.
  • (colloquial) That which settles or finishes, such as a blow that decides a contest.
  • (Britain) 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.
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Examples of "settler" in Sentences

  • The settlers arrived in the area.
  • The settlers' enmity continued to grow.
  • He opposed the expulsion of the settlers.
  • He opposed to the expulsion of the settlers.
  • The settlers turned to cannibalism to survive.
  • White settlers reacted strongly to the insecurity.
  • We have the precedent of the settlers in the Sinai.
  • Some of the peat was burned by settlers to clear the land.
  • The loan farm system enabled continuity in settler land claims.
  • It tells of the story of settlers and the hardships they had to endure.
  • Robinson was to be brought in as a conciliator between settlers and aborigines.
  • To date the role of the NGK in settler society and in colonizing the Cape has received little attention from historians.
  • Antoinetta Campher's story and family tree are another example of a slave's descendants making space for themselves in settler society.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.

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