white settler

noun

1. a well-off incomer to a district who takes advantage of what it has to offer without regard to the local inhabitants

Word History and Origins

Origin of white settler¹

C20: from earlier colonial sense

Example Sentences

William D. Brown is conceded to have been the first white settler who staked out a claim on the plateau now occupied by Omaha.

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The white settler was daily in greater danger, and constantly more eager for revenge.

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The first white settler was David McKee, who established a ferry here in 1769.

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For observe it is not against the black aboriginal that the prejudices and interests of the white settler or trader are arrayed.

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The conviction of right and justice in the white settler did not differ from the innate and untutored argument of the Indian.

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