1
: one that settles something
a settler of disputes
2
: someone who settles in a new region or colony
the first settlers of New England
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Examples of settler in a Sentence
settlers learning to live in peace with the natives
in 1889 Jane Addams, in an effort to provide Chicago's latest wave of settlers with much-needed services, founded the city's first settlement house
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What had been a settler tent camp now had 10 prefab houses, with electricity, paved roads and streetlights.
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Ben Hubbard Sergey Ponomarev, New York Times, 1 June 2024
There are reports of settlers increasing their attacks on Palestinian villages, burning homes, killing animals and ripping up plants and olive trees and expanding their outposts.
—Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 26 May 2024
Yet settlers are visibly getting closer, and multiple settler outposts established near Farkha in the past few years have been legalized by Israel’s far-right government within the last year, according to settler watchdog Peace Now.
—Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2024
As for the reasons why its first settlers stopped at the island, O’Connor believes that, contrary to some earlier opinions, the inhabitants didn’t randomly stumble upon it.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 22 May 2024
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Ben Hubbard Sergey Ponomarev, New York Times, 1 June 2024
There are reports of settlers increasing their attacks on Palestinian villages, burning homes, killing animals and ripping up plants and olive trees and expanding their outposts.
—Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 26 May 2024
Yet settlers are visibly getting closer, and multiple settler outposts established near Farkha in the past few years have been legalized by Israel’s far-right government within the last year, according to settler watchdog Peace Now.
—Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2024
As for the reasons why its first settlers stopped at the island, O’Connor believes that, contrary to some earlier opinions, the inhabitants didn’t randomly stumble upon it.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 22 May 2024
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“Settler.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/settler. Accessed 6 Jun. 2024.
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