SETTLER Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

settler

noun

ˈset-lər

Definition of settler

as in pioneer

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

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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

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Recent Examples of settler And like a growing number of descendants of white settlers, a reckoning with Australia’s modern history and an awareness of its flaws. — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 30 Oct. 2026 The Sears family, like other white settlers, tended to their crops with water sourced from an intricate network of canals, the first of which was built by the Swilling Irrigation and Canal Company in 1867. — Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 29 Oct. 2026 Viewers will learn about the fragile alliance between the English settlers and the Wampanoag people, and the conflict that set the stage for the earliest foundations of American identity, according to FOX Nation. — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Oct. 2026 Before settlers came, a few species of native roses grew in the nation, and here in Illinois. — Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for settler

Recent Examples of Synonyms for settler

Noun

Of course, others revered this leader as a pioneer of nonviolent resistance, great social reformer, inspiring civil rights leader, and the modern father of a major nation.

— Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 3 Nov. 2026
Seattle’s entire teriyaki universe exists because of one man, a pioneer of chargrilled chicken thighs.

— Allecia Vermillion, Bon Appetit Magazine, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of pioneer

Noun

Still, Becerra, who grew up in a working-class immigrant family, has shown a personal interest in allying with organized labor.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026
Last year’s winner Maido, for example, was a Peruvian restaurant run by Mitsuharu ‘Micha’ Tsumura, who is a descendant of Japanese immigrants to Peru and uses Japanese cooking techniques.

— Jeanne Bonner, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of immigrant

Noun

Both are works in that long tradition of castaways forced to survive, but in many ways, Crusoe—a colonist and capitalist and the later a jaundiced observer of the worst excesses of those systems—is the opposite of Gulliver.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2026
The original model for the kind of adversarial speech the First Amendment aims to protect, McGrane said, was the speech American colonists used against the British.

— Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of colonist

Noun

Baksheng leaves behind a family and then creates a new one with other Teochew emigrants at an inn run by a feminist daughter, Zia Lamgi (Li Sitong) who dodges a revolving door of suitors.

— Randy Myers, Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2026
The decision could have broad implications for descendants of Italian emigrants, particularly in North and South America, where large Italian diaspora communities have ancestral ties to Italy.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 July 2026

Definition of emigrant

Noun

Cárdenas, a civil engineer by training, was the son of President Lázaro Cárdenas, who nationalized the oil industry in 1938 and opened Mexico to refugees from the Spanish Civil War.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2026
He was martyred by the Nazis for aiding Jewish refugees during World War II.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026