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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/settler/#m1)

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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/settler/#m2)

3) (rare) Something that settles a matter, like a final point that ends an argument. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/settler/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/settler/#x1)
- My great-great-grandparents were settlers who came to Canada by ship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/settler/#x2)
- The settlers cleared the forest to plant wheat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/settler/#x3)
- Many settlers did not survive their first winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/settler/#x4)
- The land the settlers farmed had belonged to Aboriginal people for thousands of years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/settler/#x5)
- In our project we wrote a diary as if we were settlers in New Zealand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/settler/#x6)
- The settlers traded tools for food with the local people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/settler/#x7)
- A new settler arrived in the village every spring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/settler/#x8)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/settler/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/3/)
- [French explorers and settlers founded Québec in 1608 and traded furs with First Nations across the country.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/6/)
- [And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is Mine; for ye are strangers and settlers with Me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.756/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «settler» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/settler/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.