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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One who settles in a new region.
  2. n. One who settles or decides something.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One who settles; particularly, one who fixes his residence in a new colony.
  2. n. A separator; a tub, pan, vat, or tank in which a separation can be effected by settling. In metallurgy, a tub for separating the quicksilver and amalgam from the pulp in the Washoe process (which see, under pan,3).
  3. n. That which seltles or decides anything definitely; that which gives a quietus: as, that argument was a settler; his last blow was a settler.

Wiktionary

  1. n. someone who settles in a new location, especially one who makes a previously uninhabited place his home
  2. n. someone who decides something, such as a dispute
  3. n. UK the person in a betting shop who calculates the winnings
  4. n. A drink which settles the stomach, especially a bitter drink, often a nightcap.
  5. n. A vessel, such as a tub, in which something, such as pulverized ore suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle.
  6. n. colloquial That which settles or finishes, such as a blow that decides a contest.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One who settles, becomes fixed, established, etc.
  2. n. Especially, one who establishes himself in a new region or a colony; a colonist; a planter.
  3. n. colloq. That which settles or finishes; hence, a blow, etc., which settles or decides a contest.
  4. n. A vessel, as a tub, in which something, as pulverized ore suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country
  2. n. a negotiator who settles disputes
  3. n. a clerk in a betting shop who calculates the winnings

Etymologies

  1. to settle + -er (Wiktionary)

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  • ruzuzu Ah, yes, Milosrdenstvi--nothing like building roads to stock up on sheep and ore. Dec 21, 2009

  • milosrdenstvi If it is somewhere, say, like Catan. Dec 21, 2009

  • gangerh Would the settled agree? Dec 21, 2009

  • seanahan In America, I would say that settler has a generally positive connotation. Dec 21, 2009

  • ymedad As, indeed, the term "settler" is most usually employed in a pejorative sense, meaning one who is foreign and does not belong, my noun for a Jewish resident in Judea and Samaria, portions of the Jewish national homeland not under Israel's political sovereignty is "revenant", an adoption of the French revenir which means to return after a long absence. Oh, and a "settlement" is just but a "community", or a "town", a "village", a "city". Dec 21, 2009

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