settler

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Colonization & self-government
acknowledgement of country
annex
annexation
anti-colonial
anti-colonialism
commonwealth
condominium
crown colony
declare independence
decolonization
independence
Independence Day
intercolonial
land acknowledgment
Nat
secede
secession
self-determination
self-governing
self-government

Examples from literature

Mars One, a private Dutch company, proposes to set up a colony on Mars by 2023, sending in new ships of four colonists every two years. 
Most of the colonists had to leave the island. 
The colonists did not want to pay the tax, so they decided to become free from Britain. 
Although it had now become evident that a rupture was inevitable, the colonists viewed the snapping of the ties which bound them to Spain with reluctance and unease. 
He saw walls covered with carvings, depicting old legends about the first colonists. 
Some of the colonists refused to leave, remained, and thus became British subjects. 
The white colonists take it for granted that industry is to thrive. 
They were both young men—colonists by birth. 

colonist | American Dictionary

colonist
noun[ C ]
us/ˈkɑl·ə·nɪst/
politics & government
a person living in a country or area controlled politically by a more powerful country:
He arrived in Maryland with the first American colonists in 1634.

Examples of colonist

colonist
He points out, for example, how the colonists adapted the militia institution over time.
The authors show how the advance of the colonist economy led to a withdrawal of indigenous groups into peripheral areas in the region.
Despite the challenges, and the competitive, critical atmosphere in which they found themselves, some young colonists became thoroughly integrated.
However, more importantly, colonists eventually gained title to the land.
Figure 4 suggests three different groups of colonists.
For their part, the colonists saw no need to pay for additional protection.
The bulk of the pamphlet sets out a model for small hold agriculture which would be the activity of the inward directed colonists.
With the acquisition of independence by many of these countries, the land previously owned by the colonists was distributed by the new governments.
British politicians felt emboldened by a wider public which, when it considered distant colonists at all, often saw them as ungrateful recipients of metropolitan protection.
This would be tantamount to claiming that evolution is goaloriented and the colonists had really planned to be different linguistically.
More discussion of the colonists' revolts, for example, would have been welcome.
The lure of rubber wealth far outweighed official efforts to attract colonists.
During the first half of the 17th century they were followed by some further colonists, mainly relatives of the pioneers.
When colonists first arrived in the new world, they found plenty of land an ocean away from the old world's stifling seigniorial rights.
The colonists, no matter how inept, were the cause of the strife that every member of the community faced.
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