settler
playSimple Definition of settler
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: a person who goes to live in a new place where usually there are few or no people
Examples of settler in a sentence
<settlers learning to live in peace with the natives>
<in 1889 Jane Addams, in an effort to provide Chicago's latest wave of settlers with much-needed services, founded the city's first settlement house>
1696
First Known Use of settler
1696
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