settler

  • 21settler's twine — noun : an Australian aroid (Gymnostachys anceps); also : its coarse fiber * * * settler s twine, a grasslike plant of the arum family, used by pioneers in New South Wales and Queensland as cord or string …

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  • 22settler — noun Date: 1696 one that settles (as a new region) …

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  • 23settler — /set leuhr, l euhr/, n. 1. a person or thing that settles. 2. a person who settles in a new country or area. [1590 1600; SETTLE1 + ER1] * * * …

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  • 24settler — noun a) someone who settles in a new location, especially one who makes a previously uninhabited place his home b) someone who decides something, such as a dispute See Also: settlement …

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  • 25settler — Synonyms and related words: KO, Maecenas, Santa Claus, almoner, almsgiver, angel, arrival, arriviste, assignor, awarder, backer, bestower, cheerful giver, clincher, colonial, colonist, colonizer, comer, conclusive argument, conferrer, consignor,… …

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  • 26settler — A bookmaker s expert who calculates payouts …

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  • 27Settler — Kolonist, nybygger …

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  • 28settler — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. colonist, pioneer, emigrant, homesteader. See inhabitant. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. planter, immigrant, homesteader; see pioneer 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. colonist, homesteader, frontiersman …

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  • 29settler — set|tler [ˈsetlə US ər] n someone who goes to live in a country or area where not many people like them have lived before, and that is a long way from any towns or cities ▪ early settlers in Australia …

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  • 30settler — set|tler [ setlər ] noun count * someone who goes to live in a place where not many people live, and starts to make it into a community …

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