pobladorn.
/ˈpɒblədɔː/, U.S. /ˈpɑbləˌdɔr/ In Spanish-speaking regions of North and South America: (originally) a settler, a colonist; (now chiefly) spec. an economic migrant from the country living in extreme poverty in a shanty town.
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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
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of South America > [noun] > regions
poblador1850
llanero1878
favelado1964
1850 W. C. Jones Land Titles in Calif. 51 I grant the same faculty to the commandant with respect to distributing lands to the other settlers, (pobladores,) according to their merit and ability to improve.]
1850 B. Taylor Eldorado I. xviii. 186 To each poblador (settler) was granted a bounty of $116 44 per annum for the first two years, and $60 per annum for the three following.
1966 Economist 2 July 28/2 The pobladores (squatters) fled further up the hill.
1983 Listener 29 Sept. 6/2 The imposition of a night-long curfew was also bound to be at least irksome, especially for those pobladores, the poor, who live 12 or more to a desperate one-room shanty.
1994 P. Theroux Translating LA xii. 264 The forty-four original pobladores who had straggled into the tiny village of Yangna in 1781.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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