Synonyms of settler

settler

noun

1

as in pioneer

a person who settles in a new region

settlers learning to live in peace with the natives

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pioneer
• colonist
• colonial
• colonizer
• homesteader
• frontiersman
• explorer
• pathfinder
• woodsman
• mountain man
• bushranger
• trailblazer

2

as in immigrant

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 & Similar Words

• immigrant
• migrant
• emigrant
• refugee
• émigré
• emigré
• incomer
• colonist
• alien
• foreigner
• pioneer
• in-migrant
• pilgrim
• out-migrant
• expatriate
• squatter
• deportee
• evacuee
• defector
• noncitizen
• relocatee
• newcomer
• exile
• repatriate
• migrator
• nonnative
• trekker

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• native
• resident
• citizen
• inhabitant
• nonimmigrant
• aborigine
• national
• habitant