settler

English

Etymology

From settle +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛt.lɚ/, /ˈsɛt.l̩.ɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛt.lə/, /ˈsɛt.l̩.ə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: sett‧ler
• Homophone: settlor

Noun

settler (plural settlers)

1. Someone who settles in a new location, especially one who takes up residence in a previously uninhabited place; a colonist.

   the first settlers of New England

   • 2020 June 9, David M. Halbfinger, Adam Rasgon, “Israel Court Rejects Law Legalizing Thousands of Settlement Homes”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The law, which let settlers stay on private land if they had built there without knowing the property belonged to Palestinians or had done so at the state’s direction, was backed by Israel’s most right-wing governing coalition to date.

2. Someone who decides or settles something, such as a dispute.
3. (colloquial) That which settles or finishes, such as a blow that decides a contest.
4. (British) The person in a betting shop who calculates the winnings.
5. A drink which settles the stomach, especially a bitter drink, often a nightcap.
   • 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 80:

     [H]aving got out the rum bottle for a quiet “settler” just as the victim of his fascinations glided through the carefully adjusted door, he had been persuaded to go on drinking.

6. A vessel, such as a tub, in which something, such as pulverized ore suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle.
   • 2011, C. P. Leslie Grady, Jr., Glen T. Daigger, Nancy G. Love, Biological Wastewater Treatment, Third Edition, page 189:

     First, there will be little reaction in the settler so that the concentrations of soluble constituents in the recycle stream are the same as those in the bioreactor.

Derived terms

• informal settler
• Settla
• settler colonialism
• mixer-settler

Related terms

• settlement

Translations

someone who settles in a new location

• Arabic: مُسْتَوْطِن m (mustawṭin), مُسْتَعْمِر m (mustaʕmir), مُعَمِّر m (muʕammir)
• Armenian: նորաբնակ (hy) (norabnak)
• Belarusian: пасяле́нец m (pasjaljénjec), пасяле́нка f (pasjaljénka)
• Bulgarian: засе́лник (bg) m (zasélnik), засе́лничка f (zasélnička)
• Catalan: colon (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 定てい居きょ者しゃ (zh) (dìngjūzhě), 開拓かいたく者しゃ／开拓者しゃ (zh) (kāituòzhě), 殖民しょくみん者しゃ (zh) (zhímínzhě)

• Czech: osadník m
• Dutch: kolonist (nl) m
• Finnish: uudisraivaaja, uudisasukas (fi)
• French: colon (fr) m
• German: Siedler (de) m, Siedlerin (de) f, Ansiedler (de) m, Ansiedlerin (de) f, Kolonist (de) m, Kolonistin (de) f
• Greek: άποικος (el) m or f (ápoikos), έποικος (el) m or f (époikos) (settling in an already inhabited place)

  Ancient: ἄποικος m (ápoikos), ἔποικος m (époikos) (settling in an already inhabited place)

• Hebrew: מִתְנַחֵל m (mitnakhél)
• Hungarian: telepes (hu)
• Italian: colonizzatore (it) m, colonizzatrice f, colono (it) m, colona f
• Japanese: 入植にゅうしょく者しゃ (ja) (にゅうしょくしゃ, nyūshokusha), 開拓かいたく者しゃ (ja) (かいたくしゃ, kaitakusha)
• Latin: colōnus m, colōna f; agripeta m
• Macedonian: населеник m (naselenik)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nybygger m, bosetter m

  Nynorsk: nybyggjar m

• Persian: آبادگر (fa) (ābādgar)
• Plautdietsch: Aunsiedla m
• Polish: osadnik (pl) m, osiedleniec m
• Portuguese: colono (pt) m, colona f
• Romanian: colonist (ro) m, colonistă (ro) f
• Russian: поселе́нец (ru) m (poselénec), поселе́нка (ru) f (poselénka), колони́ст (ru) m (koloníst), колони́стка (ru) f (kolonístka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: насељѐнӣк m, насељѐница f

  Roman: naseljènīk (sh) m, naseljènica (sh) f

• Slovak: osadník m
• Slovene: naseljenec m, naseljenka f
• Spanish: colono (es) m, colona (es) f, colonizador (es) m, colonizadora (es) f
• Swahili: mlowezi (sw), setla
• Swedish: bosättare (sv) c, nybyggare (sv) c
• Ukrainian: поселе́нець m (poselénecʹ), поселе́нка f (poselénka)

someone who decides something, such as a dispute

• Bulgarian: арбитър (bg) m (arbitǎr)
• Finnish: sovittelija (fi)
• German: Schlichter (de) m, Schlichterin (de) f
• Greek: διακανονιστής m (diakanonistís)

person in a betting shop who calculates the winnings

drink that settles the stomach

• Finnish: digestiivi (fi)
• Greek: διαπυκτικόν n (diapyktikón) (medicine)
• Italian: digestivo (it) m

Anagrams

• Stelter, Stetler, letters, lettres, sterlet, tetrels, trestle

Norman

Etymology

From English settle +‎ -er.

Verb

settler

1. (Jersey) to settle (an argument, a dispute, etc.)