settler
part of speech
noun (a settler, settlers)
meaning for a pupil
1) A settler is a person who moves to a new place, often far away, to live there for good and make a home. tree →
2) In history, settlers were people who came from another country and took land to farm and build towns, often where other peoples already lived. tree →
3) (rare) Something that settles a matter, like a final point that ends an argument. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: The law says that the land belongs to God and the people are only "strangers and settlers" with Him, so land cannot be sold forever and must go back in the Jubilee year. In the primary lessons: In history and geography lessons settlers are the people who arrived in new lands, such as Europeans in North America, Australia and New Zealand; lessons talk about what they built and also about the harm done to the First Nations, Aboriginal and Māori peoples whose land was taken. In stories a settler is often brave, hard-working and poor, living in a log cabin or a hut. Phrases: early settlers, the first settlers, European settlers, settler families, settler colony.
examples
- And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is Mine; for ye are strangers and settlers with Me. (Torah LEV.25.23, JPS 1917) tree →
- As a hired servant, and as a settler, he shall be with thee; he shall serve with thee unto the year of jubilee. (Torah LEV.25.40, JPS 1917) tree →
- And if thy brother be waxen poor, and his means fail with thee; then thou shalt uphold him: as a stranger and a settler shall he live with thee. (Torah LEV.25.35, JPS 1917) tree →
- And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the settlers of Gilead, said unto Ahab: 'As the LORD, the God of Israel, liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.' (Prophets 1KI.17.1, JPS 1917) tree →
- The first settlers built their houses out of logs. tree →
- My great-great-grandparents were settlers who came to Canada by ship. tree →
- The settlers cleared the forest to plant wheat. tree →
- Many settlers did not survive their first winter. tree →
- The land the settlers farmed had belonged to Aboriginal people for thousands of years. tree →
- In our project we wrote a diary as if we were settlers in New Zealand. tree →
- The settlers traded tools for food with the local people. tree →
- A new settler arrived in the village every spring. tree →
- There being abundance of unoccupied ground in the neighborhood, these strangers built huts for themselves, and were soon joined by a multitude of new settlers, who quickly formed a city. tree →
note
Countable noun: one settler, two settlers. Comes from the verb «settle» (to make a home somewhere) + «-er» (a person who does it). Do not confuse with «settlement» (the place or village they make) or «settlor» (a law word for someone who sets up a trust). Settlers are not the same as explorers: explorers travel and look around, settlers stay. Remember that «settling» land was often taking it from people who already lived there.
In the corpora
- And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is Mine; for ye are strangers and settlers with Me.
- In Europa Universalis 5, colonising looks like filling empty provinces with settlers.
- French explorers and settlers founded Québec in 1608 and traded furs with First Nations across the country.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «settler» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.