settler
noun
set·tler
ˈse-tᵊl-ər 
ˈset-lər
1
: one that settles something
a settler of disputes
2
: someone who settles in a new region or colony
the first settlers of New England
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settlers learning to live in peace with the natives
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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Sheridan reportedly has a long-running desire to adapt the book that tells the story of the battles between the Comanche tribe and white settlers in America's West.
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David Faris, Newsweek, 19 Jan. 2025
Due to a lack of hedgehogs, the settlers began using another hibernating mammal: The groundhog.
—Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2025
It was built in 1842 by infamous mountaineer Jim Bridger (played by Shea Whigham in American Primeval) as a trading post and resting place for settlers migrating West.
—Emily Blackwood, People.com, 16 Jan. 2025
The country’s links to the island—home to fewer than 60,000 people, most of whom are Inuit—stretch back centuries: Norse settlers arrived in the territory over a millennium ago before eventually disappearing, and Denmark began colonizing the island in the 1700s.
—Sara Dorn, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
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David Faris, Newsweek, 19 Jan. 2025
Due to a lack of hedgehogs, the settlers began using another hibernating mammal: The groundhog.
—Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2025
It was built in 1842 by infamous mountaineer Jim Bridger (played by Shea Whigham in American Primeval) as a trading post and resting place for settlers migrating West.
—Emily Blackwood, People.com, 16 Jan. 2025
The country’s links to the island—home to fewer than 60,000 people, most of whom are Inuit—stretch back centuries: Norse settlers arrived in the territory over a millennium ago before eventually disappearing, and Denmark began colonizing the island in the 1700s.
—Sara Dorn, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
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“Settler.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/settler. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.
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