settler

settler

noun

Definition of SETTLER

1

a person who settles in a new region <settlers learning to live in peace with the natives>

Synonyms colonial, colonist, colonizer, homesteader, pioneer, settler

Related Words explorer, pathfinder, trailblazer; bushranger, mountain man, woodsman

2

one that leaves one place to settle in another <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>

Synonyms émigré (also emigr{eacute}), immigrant, incomer [chiefly British], in-migrant, migrant, out-migrant, settler

Related Words defector, deportee, evacuee, exile, expatriate, refugee, relocatee, repatriate; alien, foreigner, illegal, noncitizen, nonnative; colonist, newcomer, squatter; migrator, pilgrim, pioneer, trekker

Near Antonyms aborigine, native; citizen, habitant, inhabitant, national, resident

Antonyms nonimmigrant