SETTLERS Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

settlers

noun

plural of settler

as in colonists

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

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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 settlers The circumstances of Friday's events remained unclear, but Israeli media reports and interviews with local Palestinian officials suggested a group of settlers entered Tell and were confronted by residents fearful of an attack. — ABC News, 25 July 2026 This caused chaos and then the ‌Israeli military arrived and started shooting, along with ‌the settlers, Saifi told Reuters. — Reuters, NBC news, 24 July 2026 As the group approached the Palestinian village of Tell, clashes broke out between the settlers and residents of the village. — Abeer Salman, CNN Money, 24 July 2026 According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, since the beginning of this year, 87 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank governorates, including 21 by Israeli settlers. — Majdi Mohammed, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2026 This modern multimedia gallery walks you through Iceland’s history, beginning when the first settlers from Norway arrived in the late ninth century to the present day. — Carolyn Heller, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026 In an effort to starve the Native Americans of the Great Plains, white settlers massacred many millions of North American buffalo between 1870 and 1890, piling the animals’ skulls into monstrous mounds reaching up to the sky. — Literary Hub, 20 July 2026 Several former officials noted to me with pride that after October 7th the Administration became the first to sanction violent West Bank settlers. — David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 20 July 2026 The reboot’s creative team worked with Osage scholar and consultant Robert Warrior to draw inspiration for the characters of William Mitchell and his wife, White Sun, from 19 Osage families who lived in Kansas at the time settlers arrived. — Michael Gioia, Architectural Digest, 16 July 2026

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Noun

Under British rule, mail wasn’t private; postmasters could open letters to spy on colonists.

— Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 16 July 2026
Religious symbols are best displayed in non-governmental spaces given that America was formed by colonists who fled England to seek freedom of religion.

— Tara Sonenshine, Baltimore Sun, 11 July 2026

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Noun

Sandy Dorsainvil, 49 Homeowner in unincorporated Dade Dorsainvil was at the TPS rally in Little Haiti soaking in the concerns for Haitian immigrants and describes herself as a community redevelopment specialist and cultural curator.

— Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 25 July 2026
Despite a succession of last-minute extensions by federal immigration authorities, time appears to be finally running out for thousands of Haitian immigrants in South Florida.

— David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 25 July 2026

Definition of immigrants

Noun

The Rodale Institute, pioneers of organic and regenerative agriculture, has broken ground on its $24 million Center for Regenerative Organic Innovation in Kutztown, Pennsylvania.

— Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Since then, El Malilla has expanded the scope of reggaeton Mexa following collaborations with Puerto Rican pioneers such as Jowell y Randy and Colombian superstar J Balvin.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026

Definition of pioneers

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At the height of the border crisis, Hartman said agents sometimes encountered groups of up to 70 migrants moving through the underground maze.

— Brooke Taylor, FOXNews.com, 20 July 2026
The foreign minister told me that in the southern Mexican city of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, about 140 miles from the nearest Mexico-Guatemala border crossing, a tractor-trailer had crashed while carrying more than 160 Guatemalan migrants.

— Ken Salazar, Time, 20 July 2026

Definition of migrants

Noun

González has witnessed the ties between Mexico and its emigrants abroad evolve over four decades, starting as a young consular officer in the administration of Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.

— Alfredo Corchado, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026
The book looked at the world of a swath of Irish women emigrants who were deemed troublemakers, highlighting that for a period of time, Irish women outnumbered Irish men in prison.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 30 June 2026

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