colonist

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

People who live or settle somewhere
asylum seeker
boarder
brain drain
city slicker
co-resident
frontiersman
Georgian
guest worker
habitant
illegal alien
lodger
occupier
Orcadian
outflow
overspill
repeople
squatter
villager
welcome wagon
year-rounder

Examples from literature

In the mid-1800s, the Tawakoni were forced to leave by European settlers, and the land was turned into farms. 

settler | American Dictionary

settler
noun[ C ]
us/ˈset·lər, ˈset̬·əl·ər/
a person who goes to live in a new place where few people have lived before:
The first settlers of this area were Germans.

Examples of settler

settler
But when planning housing in new regions, the cultural community from where the settlers will come is still unknown.
The chief obstacle to such a law in the first part of the twentieth century was opposition from settlers and farmers.
For too long the official mind quailed before settler muscle.
But soon settlers grew alarmed about the social effects of this new medium.
Other legislation was of a more permanent nature, and more obviously worked to the longer-term benefit of the settler employer.
Motivated by the need for more settlers, they turned a blind eye to fugitives' illegal status and permitted them to settle.
Transport costs to world markets were high for which the settlers needed to compensate by using cheap labour.
The in-migrants (settlers) continued to acquire land by various means as described in the earlier section.
Initially the settlers leave the child (comfortably) placed outside, so that it can be retrieved by its parents without confrontation.
The colonial state, despite increasing agrarian support to the settlers, also came to a realization that settler agrarian economy was bankrupting the young colony.
Cutting and burning was the method adopted by settlers for clearing the land.
Once open-access forests are cleared by poor early settlers, cleared land becomes their de-facto private property.
Nothing less than a comprehensive scheme for imperial defence was required and would have to be paid for, infuriating the settlers still further.
In the existing orthodoxy, settler farming developed along a gradual, cataclysm-free road to capitalist agriculture.
But chemical fertilizers were hardly used by the settlers.
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