Synonyms of settler

settler

noun

ˈset-lər 

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
• 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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of settler

Nearly all Senate Democrats voted to require the State Department to report on Israeli settler violence in the West Bank, in a continuing sign of the party’s hardening stance toward Israel. — Noah Robertson, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2026

More than 100 Israeli settlers were involved in Tuesday’s attack on the Tubasi family – with some storming the house and setting it on fire. — Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2026

In the West Bank, attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians have intensified. — Abby Sewell, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026

Nineteenth-century settlers saw themselves as pioneers, breaking new ground, but, Specht notes, so did twentieth-century suburbanites. — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026