out-settlementn.
/ˈaʊtˌsɛtlm(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈaʊtˌsɛdlm(ə)nt/ Originally North American.
An outlying or remote settlement.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town, village, or collection of dwellings > [noun] > remote
out-settlement1690
outstation1817
settlement1827
neck of the woods1839
1690 J. Stewart Let. 27 Apr. in G. Waddell Indians S. Carolina Lowcountry (1980) 203 They were made belive that we..selling them no powdr wes a desyne to cut of all the nighboring nations, and all around us remov'd from our outsetlements.
1705 R. Beverley Hist. Virginia iii. 21 All the Out-Settlements were deserted, and the People that were not destroy'd took Refuge in James-Town.
1747 Boston Weekly News-let. 16 July 2/1 Hendrick, the Indian who went out..to annoy the French in their Out-Settlements at Canada, with thirty odd Indians.
1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer iii. 81 The..dialogue passed at an out-settlement, where I lately paid a visit.
1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxxiii. 320 A felon working out a sentence in a penal gang at one of our out-settlements.
1883 Cent. Mag. Sept. 700/2 New Netherlands had suffered the annihilation of its out-settlements and an almost complete depopulation of its little capital.
1945 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 51 208/2 The..struggle of the Nova Scotian out-settlements to..free themselves from the restrictions of the British colonial system.
1996 Amer. Hist. Rev. 101 1619/1 Currently a prestigious residential outsettlement for commuting executives and professionals on the south-eastern metropolitan fringe of Syracuse.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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