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1
a person who settles in a new region
- settlers learning to live in peace with the natives
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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
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- emigrant,
- émigré
- (also emigré),
- immigrant,
- in-migrant,
- incomer
- [chiefly British],
- migrant,
- out-migrant
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“Settler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/settler. Accessed 17 Sep. 2021.
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The first known use of settler was in 1598
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