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settler

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of settler

1 a person who settles in a new region

settlers learning to live in peace with the natives

Synonyms of settler

colonial, colonist, colonizer, frontiersman, homesteader, pioneer

Words Related to settler

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 Chicagoʼs latest wave of settlers with much-needed services, founded the cityʼs first settlement house

Synonyms of settler

emigrant, émigré (also emigré), immigrant, in-migrant, incomer [chiefly British], migrant, out-migrant

Words Related to settler

defector, deportee, evacuee, exile, expatriate, refugee, relocatee, repatriate

alien, foreigner, noncitizen, nonnative

colonist, newcomer, squatter

migrator, pilgrim, pioneer, trekker

Near Antonyms of settler

aborigine, native

citizen, habitant, inhabitant, national, resident

Antonyms of settler

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