settler
A person who leaves their home area to live for a long time in a new place, often where few people from their group lived before.
A person who moves to a new region or country to live there permanently, especially when the place is newly established, sparsely populated, or on a frontier.
A person who goes to live on land where other people already live, as part of a group that controls or takes that land.
A person from a colonizing or dominant group who moves to live permanently on land already inhabited by another people, often as part of a colonial or occupying project.
A special tank or machine where solid bits in a liquid slowly fall to the bottom so the liquid becomes clearer.
An industrial container or device used to separate solid particles from a liquid by allowing them to settle to the bottom.
- Base: settler
- Plural: settlers
early settlers
1the first incoming residents
The people who were among the first from outside to live in a place and make homes there.
- The museum has a section showing how early settlers cooked, worked, and slept.
- Many roads still follow the routes first used by early settlers.
European settlers
1settlers from Europe abroad
People from Europe who moved to another region or continent to live there as settlers.
- European settlers arrived on the continent in the fifteenth century.
- Diseases brought by European settlers had a devastating effect on the local population.
first settlers
1earliest outside group to settle
The very first people from outside who came to live in a place and stayed.
- The first settlers had to clear dense forest before they could plant crops.
- Local legends tell how the first settlers chose the location for the town.
Israeli settlers
1Israeli residents in occupied areas
Israeli citizens who live in settlements in areas where there is a dispute or conflict about the land.
- The report condemned new housing for Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
- Roads used mainly by Israeli settlers are heavily guarded by soldiers.
Jewish settlers
1Jewish people living as settlers
Jewish people who live as settlers, especially in areas where there is conflict about who owns the land.
- Talks focused on limiting the growth of communities of Jewish settlers in the area.
- Some Jewish settlers said they would resist any attempt to remove them from their homes.
settler colonialism
1colonial rule based on permanent settlers
A kind of colonial rule where people from the powerful country move to the land, stay there, and build a new society that often pushes out the original people.
- Some historians describe the country's history as a classic case of settler colonialism.
- The book compares patterns of settler colonialism in North America, Australia, and southern Africa.
settler colonialism
1colonialism by permanent settlers
colonialism where settlers come to stay and take control of land from Indigenous people
- The course compares settler colonialism in North America, Australia, and New Zealand.
- Scholars of settler colonialism often focus on land, law, and the displacement of Indigenous peoples.
- The documentary presents the conflict as part of a longer history of settler colonialism.
- Settler colonialism often involved taking land from Indigenous people.
- The book is about settler colonialism in Australia.
settler community
1group or town of settlers
A group of settlers who live in the same area and share a common life there.
- The settler community grew quickly after the discovery of gold nearby.
- Tensions rose between the settler community and neighboring villages.
settler society
1society formed mainly by settlers
A society where the way of life and rules mostly come from settlers, not from the people who first lived on the land.
- The film examines how myths of the frontier still influence settler society today.
- Sociologists have written about the impact of racism in settler societies around the world.
settler state
1state built and led by settlers
A country whose main leaders and institutions were created by settlers and where native people were pushed aside or made less powerful.
- The article argues that the country should be understood as a settler state.
- Debates continue over how a settler state can address historic injustices against indigenous peoples.
white settlers
1white members of a settler group
Settlers who are white people, usually from a powerful country, who move to and live on land in another region.
- White settlers took control of large farming areas that had belonged to indigenous communities.
- The film tells the story from the viewpoint of white settlers on the frontier.