settler

«settler» in Mova's school dictionary: a person who moves to a new place, often far away, to… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

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

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

• 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

• 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.
• And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is Mine; for ye are strangers and settlers with Me.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «settler» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.