settler

[set-ler, -l-er]

noun

1. a person or thing that settles. settle.

2. a person who settles settle in a new country or area.

settler

/ ˈsɛtlə /

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of settler¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; settle ¹ + -er ¹

Example Sentences

The settler issue may complicate the loan-guarantee schedule if the ’67 lines are even retrievable.

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White’s taxonomy of New Yorkers: the natives, the commuters and the settlers who are “born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.”

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That made them vulnerable to the mammals that arrived with European settlers in the 19th century.

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The Germans forced survivors into concentration camps, seizing their lands for the state and selling vast tracts to white settlers at heavily subsidized rates, according to historians and researchers.

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Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition relies on the support of ultra nationalist extremists who thought they were close to their dream of expelling Gaza's Palestinians and replacing them with Jewish settlers.

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Related Words

• colonist 
• immigrant 
• pioneer