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settler

/set-ler, -l-er/US // ˈsɛt lər, -l ər //UK // (ˈsɛtlə) //

定居者,落户者,定居者的,移民者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person or thing that settles.
    • : a person who settles in a new country or area.

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Examples

  • Although only 4 percent of the original prairie remains, the countryside in and around the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve retains the sense of endless beauty that greeted the settlers.

  • In her 2009 history of pie, Janet Clarkson suggests this reflects a shortage of wheat, which remained relatively scarce in the United States until settlers moved to the Great Plains.

  • Later the early United States was a lab for observing this as its settlers altered nature.

  • Early settlers tended to push up the major rivers until they ran into the first set of waterfalls—the “fall line”—and those spots became jumping-off points for people who were even more desperate or adventurous.

  • Starting in the late 1800s, settlers of the Great Basin poisoned prairie dogs to leave more grass for their cattle.

  • A few children, settler children, congregate near what appears to have been the bus station.

  • Buy an Obama family vacation time-share in an East Jerusalem Israeli settler condo to help repair relations with Bibi Netanyahu.

  • However, Palestinian villagers are still shopping at settler-owned Rami Levy stores.

  • Housing Minister Uri Ariel, himself a settler, is at least bureaucratically responsible for the latest announcement.

  • Four settler outposts, which even Israel considers illegal, surround Jalud.

  • But before many months had passed there was hardly a settler without slave labour, the principal exception being my father.

  • One attacked a settler, who returned a mortal wound with a pitchfork.

  • The settler passed the mouth of the wood road leading to the cabin.

  • Presently the settler realized whence the cries were coming.

  • "I should say wait till morning, certainly," the settler said.