| 单词 | old settler |
| 释义 | > as lemmasold settler old settler n. [ < old adj. + settler n. 2a] one of the earliest settlers in a community; (more generally) a person who has lived in a colonial community for a long time. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > colonist or settler > [noun] > other specific colonists or settlers pilgrim1630 originals1703 old settler1744 Big Knife1750 out-settler1755 provincial1756 Boer1776 freeman1791 Pilgrim Fathers1799 back-settler1809 undertaker1819 oecist1846 Argonaut1848 Canterbury pilgrim1850 poblador1850 shagroon1851 forty-niner1853 planter1858 inside squatter1881 local white1888 Minyan1928 1744 Colonial Rec. Georgia (1906) VI. 117 Thomas Ellis has been an old Settler in the Colony. 1854 R. B. Paul Some Acct. Canterbury Settlemt. 5 Having now resided more than two years in the Canterbury Settlement..[I] may almost call [myself] an ‘old settler’. 1979 S. W. Duthie Fiddlers Creek 129 I suppose that there's lots of old settler families around the place. 1996 Independent on Sunday 3 Mar. (Review Suppl.) 50/2 The old settlers had planted plots of their farms with Shiraz..in the Barossa's very hot, dry climate. < as lemmas |
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