settlementn.
/ˈsɛtlm(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈsɛdlmənt/ I. The placing of persons or things in a fixed or permanent position.in extended use.1896 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. IV 897 Being a great wanderer, it [sc. the Tree-Sparrow] has effected settlements even in such remote islands as the Færoes.
1. The act of fixing (a thing, material or immaterial) in a secure or steady position; the state of being so fixed; a fixed or steady position.
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the world > movement > absence of movement > [noun] > stability > becoming or making stable
settlement1648
stabilization1887
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > condition of being fast bound or firmly fixed > [noun] > making fast or securing > in position
stickingc1405
steeking1488
fixturea1616
settlement1648
defixion1660
1648 Bp. J. Hall Breathings Devout Soul iii. 3 Can ye hope to finde rest in any of these sublunary contentments, Alas? how can they yeeld any stay to you, that have no settlement in themselves?
1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 5 The Winds and Tide trouls them [sc. the Sands], and give them a settlement along the Shores.
1825 W. Scott Talisman xii, in Tales Crusaders III. 299 Bring, if thou canst, thy wavering understanding to a right settlement for a minute or two.
1837 B. Disraeli Venetia I. 126 A vast trunk uprooted from its ancient settlement.
1902 Allbutt in Encycl. Brit. XXX. 611/2 Even more set diseases began to lose their settlements, and were recognized as terms of series, as transitory or culminating phases.
2. Establishment of a person in life, in marriage, in an office or employment.
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society > occupation and work > working > career > [noun] > establishment in a position
settlement1651
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > [noun] > settling (down) in marriage
settlement1861
settling down1911
1651 I. Walton Life of Wotton in H. Wotton Reliquiæ Wottonianæ sig. c4v This [sc. the Provostship of Eton Coll.] was a faire setlement for his minde.
1660 R. Coke Justice Vindicated 21 A magistrate of an hour's settlement is as much a magistrate as if he had been one never so long.
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables ccxci. 254 Every Man..Applies himself..toward the Attaining of his End; whether it be Honour, Wealth, Power, or any other sort of Advantage, or Settlement in the World.
1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas I. iii. i. 179 I shall find no difficulty in procuring for you a good settlement.
1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. lii. 445 Thirty thousand Persians, who had obtained service and settlement in the Byzantine empire.
1861 Mrs. H. Wood East Lynne I. i. xii. 179 That Mr. Carlyle was not of rank equal to her own, she scarcely remembered: East Lynne seemed a very fair settlement in life,..superior to the home she was now in.
1861 Two Cosmos I. 294 Contrary to all that Mr. Caird had ever dreamed or planned for a settlement of his daughter in the married state.
3. Legal residence or establishment in a particular parish, entitling a person to relief from the poor rates; the right to relief acquired by such residence.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > [noun] > a parish
settlement1662
society > law > legal right > rights to do or use something > [noun] > right to alms or poor relief
settlement1662
1662 Act 14 Chas. II c 12 §3 If the person..shall not returne to the place aforesaid when his..worke is finished..it shall not bee accounted a Setlement in the cases above~said.
1689 in G. T. Lawley Hist. Bilston (1893) 59 Forasmuch as some persons by sculking wtin this Constablewick, have surreptitiously gain'd a settlement here.
1704 J. Chamberlayne Chamberlayne's Angliæ Notitia (ed. 21) i. iii. x. 425 There is a Workhouse in Bishopsgate-Street, for employing..all such as have no Settlement.
1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 113 Many of them were without what we call legal Settlements, and so could not claim of the Parishes.
1791 ‘G. Gambado’ Ann. Horsemanship xvii. 77 But I soon convinced 'em he had not staid long enough in the parish to gain a settlement.
1857 A. Mayhew Paved with Gold Introd. iii At one Union..they had told her that she must go back to where she had been born, for her settlement was there.
1898 Daily News 20 July 8/4 The appeal involved a question as to the settlement of a pauper..who was born at Plymouth, but had done no act to gain a settlement.
4. The act of settling oneself, or state of being settled, in a fixed place or position, in a permanent abode, etc.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > [noun] > establishing residence
settlementa1684
domiciliation1816
domestication1866
land settlement1924
settling in1955
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1652 (1955) III. 58 I went to Deptford; where..I made preparation for my settlement, no more intending to go out of England.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 131 This little wandring Journey, without settled Place of Abode, had been so unpleasant to me, that my own House, as I call'd it to my self, was a perfect Settlement to me, compar'd to that.
1791 Ld. Auckland Let. 12 Dec. in Jrnl. & Corr. (1861) II. 396 Nothing can be known till the settlement in the new house and in society is completed.
1882 W. Besant Revolt of Man iv. 85 She began..with a comfortable settlement in the chair, which meant a good long talk.
5. In Presbyterian churches: The placing or installing of a minister in a pastoral charge.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > induction > [noun]
inductingc1380
inductionc1380
institutionc1380
instituting1534
planting1649
settlement1723
stationing1735
1723 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 14 Our settlements are turning extremely vexatious.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at To Settle A congregation is said to get a settlement, when the Pastor is introduced to the discharge of the pastoral office among them.
1842 W. M. Hetherington Hist. Church Scotl. (new ed.) 666 Great opposition was made to the settlement by the pious parishioners.
1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters ii. 31 Gillespie had been deposed..for refusing to assist in the disputed settlement of Inverkeithing.
6. The act of settling as colonists or new-comers; the act of peopling or colonizing a new country, or of planting a colony. (Cf. sense 14)Phrase, to effect a settlement.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > colonizing > [noun]
planting1584
plantation1587
settling1609
colonizinga1626
situationa1657
seating1700
colonization1747
settlement1827
pioneering1851
1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxii. 83 It would be well, also, to attempt the cultivation of tea in some part of our colony, by a settlement of Chinese.
1850 W. Mure Hist. Lang. & Lit. Greece i. v. §1. 89 The settlement of Oriental colonies in Greece produced no sensible effect on the character either of the language or the nation.
1851 D. Wilson Archæol. & Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. iv. i. 470 These Irish Scoti effected a settlement in the district..now known as the county of Argyle.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iv. §2. 163 We have traced the rudiments of our Constitution to the first moment of the English settlement in Britain.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Sept. 5/1 That region is now divided into four distinct provinces—Assiniboia, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Athabasca—in all of which, except the last, settlement is rapidly progressing.
II. Arrangement or regulation (of affairs, etc.).attributive.1849 Direct. Revenue Off. N.W. Prov. Bengal (1850) 27 Directions for Settlement Officers.
7.
a. The act or process of regulating or putting on a permanent footing; the act of establishing (public affairs, etc.) in security or tranquillity; the state of being settled and established; a settled arrangement, an established order of things.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > [noun] > institution or founding
fasteningeOE
stablishinga1300
groundingc1380
stablingc1380
ordinancec1384
establishingc1400
foundationc1400
fundament1440
stablishment1444
institutionc1460
upsetting1470
erection1508
instituting1534
foundingc1540
erecting1553
constitution1582
establishment1596
plantation1605
instauration1614
institute1641
bottoming1642
ordaining1643
settlement1646
planting1702
incardination1897
the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > putting in order > ordering or regulating
institutionc1475
settlement1646
ordering1732
1646 J. Dury Israels Call 47 Then look to the further settlement of the civill state.
1646 J. Dury Israels Call 48 With the settlement of the Church, as a body compact together.
1661 A. Cowley Ess. in Verse & Prose (1906) 254 That every third year (after the full settlement of the Foundation) the Colledge shall give an account..of the fruits of their triennial Industry.
1681 H. Neville Plato Redivivus 23 People..who think that the growth of Popery is our only Evil, and that if we were secure against that, our Peace and Settlement were obtain'd.
1696 J. Evelyn Let. 30 Mar. in Diary & Corr. (1859) III. 350 In religious matters..I could not but discover in him the same free thoughts which he had of philosophy... For the rest, always conformable to the present settlement.
1716 J. Addison Freeholder No. 50. ⁋6 A sufficient force for the reformation of such disorders, and the settlement of the publick peace.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 197 These [sc. manufactures and commerce] are the offspring of peace and settlement.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 555 A settlement such as Argyle would have made..seemed to them not worth a struggle.
1900 Sat. Rev. 24 Mar. 350 The settlement that should be made after the war.
b. Determination or decision of a question, dispute, etc.; the establishing of an opinion, the text of a document, etc.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > settlement of dispute, arbitration > [noun]
daying1447
arbitrage1480
dayment1519
umpirage1519
arbitry1535
awardshipc1547
arbitrament1549
settling1553
umpireship1565
arbitrating1648
daysmanship1649
arbitrationa1661
settlement1777
umpirism1792
adjudicature1859
1777 J. Priestley Disquis. Matter & Spirit xvi. 208 The opinion..does not seem to have tended to a settlement before the fifth century.
1855 F. A. Paley Æschylus (1861) Pref. p. xi The settlement of the text of Aeschylus..has been a gradual process of restoration and recovery.
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. ii. 159 The settlement of the question..could not long be delayed.
1871 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 215 That is an affair of taste, which does not admit of any authoritative settlement.
8. attributive.1879 W. S. Champness Insur. Dict. (1883) 302 Settlement policies, life policies in which are introduced clauses giving them all the effect of marriage settlements so far as the moneys assured are concerned.
a. Law. The act of settling property upon a person or persons; the particular terms of such an arrangement; the deed or instrument by which it is effected. Often spec. = marriage settlement n. at marriage n. Compounds 2.
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society > law > transfer of property > settlement of property > [noun]
vesting1611
settlement1677
society > law > transfer of property > settlement of property > [noun] > deed of settlement
settlement1677
1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 9 I have been a Commissioner in the Third part of the greatest Estates in the County, wherein I have seen the Settlements two ways.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1679 (1955) IV. 192 I went..to meete Sir John Stonehouse, and give him a particular of the settlement on my Sonn, who now made his addresses to..his Daughter in Law.
1685 J. Dryden tr. Theocritus Idyllium xxvii, in Sylvæ 118 My Flocks, my Fields, my Wood, my Pastures take, With settlement as good as Law can make.
1734 J. Swift Strephon & Cloe in Beautiful Young Nymph 10 But, Strephon sigh'd so loud and strong, He blew a Settlement along.
1782 F. Burney Cecilia I. ii. vii. 277 All the world..would approve the connexion, and the settlement made upon her should be dictated by herself.
1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxx. 303 The deed of settlement, the professional gentlemen inform me, is now ready.
1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xi. 69 Your wife..may..claim a settlement out of it for herself and her children.
1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 407 The splendid settlement which Rudolf was ready to make upon his son.
b. The settling of the succession to the Crown. Act of Settlement, the Act passed in 1701 (12 & 13 Will. III, c. 2) by which the succession to the British crown was settled upon Princess Sophia of Hanover and her descendants.
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society > law > transfer of property > settlement of property > [noun] > settling succession to crown
settlement1714
1714 R. Steele (title) The Crisis, or, a Discourse Representing..The several Settlements of the Crowns of England and Scotland on Her Majesty.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. i. i. 124 These liberties were again asserted..in the act of settlement, whereby the crown is limited to his present majesty's illustrious house.
1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xv. 530 The immediate settlement of the crown at the revolution extended only to the descendants of Anne and of William.
c. Scots Law. The disposition of property or heritage by will; also, the document by which this is effected. disposition and settlement, a deed by which a person provides for the disposal of his property, heritable and movable, after his death.
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society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [noun]
bequestc1300
provingc1330
legacy1485
devise1528
bequesting1572
making1621
bequeathmenta1627
bequeathal1642
bequeathing1674
testing1681
testamentationa1797
willing1797
settlement1815
testation1832
devising1868
society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [noun] > will
witword?997
quideOE
bequeath1297
testamentc1330
willc1400
intestement1463
latter will1540
testimonialc1616
settlement1815
script1850
test1890
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 244 This lady..made a general settlement of her affairs in Miss Lucy Bertram's favours.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 310 Mr. Protocol..began to read the settlement aloud in a slow, steady, business-like tone.
1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. at Testament Testament or Will disposing of Moveables only... Disposition and Settlement or Will disposing of Heritage as well as Moveables.
d. The amount settled upon a person.
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society > law > transfer of property > settlement of property > [noun] > amount of
settlement1811
1811 T. C. Morgan Let. 29 Dec. in Lady Morgan Memoirs (1862) I. xxxvii. 525 My wife's settlement is vested in the Three per Cents.
e. U.S. A sum of money or other property formerly granted to a minister on his ordination, in addition to his salary.
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society > faith > worship > benefice > other financial matters > [noun] > payment made on specific occasion > on occasion of ordination or investiture
invest1534
settlement1828
1828–32 in N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang.
a1840 Nath. Emmons Autobiog. in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms in Cent. Dict. Before the war began, my people punctually paid my salary, and advanced one hundred pounds of my settlement a year before it was due by contract.
9.
a. The settling or payment of an account; the act of satisfying a claim or demand, of coming to terms (with a person).
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society > trade and finance > payment > [noun] > action of paying
payment1389
payingc1390
solution1489
mail-paying1581
settlement1729
paying out1863
pestering1936
society > trade and finance > payment > payment of debt > [noun]
satisfaction1398
acquittance?a1400
amortizement1439
financec1460
discharge1534
clearing1579
settlement1729
discharging1735
settling1761
liquidation1786
extinguishment1796
amortization1810
service1817
amortizing1840
extinction1845
clearance1858
pay-off1864
admortization1903
1729 Act 2 Geo. II c. 23 §23 Upon the Taxation and Settlement of such Bill and Demand.
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor viii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. I. 224 Ye might say..that the carline awed you rent, and that ye wad allow it in the settlement.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. ii. v. 122 From the Townhall he,..emits..fresh plans of settlement with Château-Vieux.
1873 Mrs. H. Wood Master of Greylands I. x. 172 In an incredibly short..time..the affairs of the bank were in a way of settlement.
1878 C. E. L. Riddell Mother's Darling I. vii. 197 No heavy bills were sent to Dilfield for settlement.
b. spec. The fortnightly (or, for government securities, monthly) settling of accounts on the Stock Exchange.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > stock exchange accounting period > settlement
settlementa1777
roundup1856
a1777 S. Foote Nabob (1778) ii. 41 For de next settlement, would your honour be de bull or de bear?
1897 Westm. Gaz. 23 Dec. 8/2 With regard to Mining markets preparations are now in full progress for the settlement.
10. In India: The process of assessing the government land-tax over a specific area.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > land tax > assessment of or valuation for
jumma1781
settlement1789
land-valuation1851
1789 Ld. Cornwallis Let. 2 Nov. in Corr. (1859) I. 443 The Board continued..to form and issue the necessary instructions for making a settlement of the land revenues of the province of Bahar.
1849 Direct. Revenue Off. N.W. Prov. Bengal (1850) 7 There are evidently two distinct operations in the formation of a Settlement. The one is fiscal—the determination of the Government Demand—the other is judicial, the formation of the record of rights.
III. The act of becoming set or still, sinking, subsiding, etc.
11. figurative.1881 B. Jowett tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War I. 9 In the age which followed the Trojan War, Hellas was still in process of ferment and settlement.
a. The act of settling and clarifying after agitation or fermentation.
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > [noun] > settling
settlement1626
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §302 First for Separation; It is wrought by Weight; As in the ordinary Residence or Settlement of Liquors.
1669 W. Charleton Mysterie of Vintners in Two Disc. 152 The too frequent, or violent motion of Wines, after their settlement in their vessels.
1669 W. Charleton Mysterie of Vintners in Two Disc. 172 They counsel to rack it from the Milky bottom, after a weeks settlement.
b. The deposition of grosser particles or solid matter. Also concrete, a deposit or sediment. Obsolete exc. dialect.
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1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Ooov/1 This Liquour is not right, there is a Settlement.
1692 Coll. Improvem. Husbandry & Trade No. 9. ⁋ 3 I dry'd both the Settlements asunder.
1739 W. Montagu Let. 26 Aug. in Let. & Wks. Lady M. W. Montagu (1837) II. 3 They are occasioned by a settlement of humours, which are removed by exercise.
1739 C. Labelye Short Acct. Piers Westm.-Bridge 64 The Tide of Ebb having so long a Time to deposit its Settlement.
1890 J. D. Robertson Gloss. Words County of Gloucester Settlements, sediment.
c. The sinking of floc and other solid particles in liquid sewage. Also attributive, as settlement tank.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > provision of sewers > sewage treatment > [noun] > settlement of sewage
settlement1912
1912 H. Lemmoin-Cannon Textbk. Sewage Disposal in U.K. xviii. 62 Tanks of the same kind..are used for the purpose of attaining the settlement of the suspended organic solids by sedimentation.
1927 T. H. P. Veal Disposal of Sewage v. 54 Quiescent settlement tanks are operated on what is known as the fill-and-draw principle.
1927 T. H. P. Veal Disposal of Sewage v. 55 The amount of clarification effected in a given time by quiescent settlement is greater than that effected by the continuous flow method.
1977 C. B. Capper in A. G. Callely et al. Treatment Industrial Effluents vi. 90 Probably the oldest method of removing suspended solids was by the use of horizontal-flow settlement tanks.
12. A sinking down or subsidence (of a structure, loose earth, etc.).
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > [noun] > sinking down
settlingc1440
sinking1440
declining1601
subsiding1607
subsidency1650
sedation1661
sinking-in1678
subsidence1754
sinkage1783
settlement1793
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §283 Twelve pieces..of near a ton each,..laid upon the first vaulted floor, without..the least degree of settlement.
1799 R. Kirwan Geol. Ess. 410 After a certain degree of desiccation their masses were capable of a much closer approach to each other, or of what builders commonly call settlement.
1820 T. Tredgold Elem. Princ. Carpentry ix. 142 By shrinkage, or settlement, the joints will bear only upon the angular points of the joint.
1832 H. T. De la Beche Geol. Man. (ed. 2) ii. 135 The whole may be explained by the settlement of loose sand..during the violent shocks of an earthquake.
1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 1031 Settlements, those parts in which failures by sinking in a building have occurred.
1898 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin i. i These landslips are sometimes followed, at the return of the tide, by a further fall, called a ‘settlement’.
13. The process of becoming calm or tranquil.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > fine weather > [noun] > calm weather > becoming
settlement1837
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. vii. v. 424 It is like the settlement of winds and waters, of seas long tornado-beaten.
IV. An assemblage of persons settled in a locality.
14.
a. (Cf. sense 6) A community of the subjects of a state settled in a new country; a tract of country so settled, a colony, esp. one in its earlier stages.back settlement: see back adj. 1b. Straits Settlements (now Historical), the collective name for the British possessions in the Malay Peninsula.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > colonist or settler > [noun] > collectively
colony1555
plantation1636
swarm1659
settlement1697
settlerdom1863
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [noun] > colony
colonyc1550
habitation1555
plantation1609
settlement1697
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World vii. 163 In some River where the Spaniards have neither Settlement nor Trade with the native Indians.
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 113 Have the Spaniards no..Ports or Towns, Settlements or Colonies in it?
1753 Scots Mag. Feb. 65/2 British subjects in the back settlements.
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. viii. 89 The present state of Bengal, and of some other of the English settlements in the East Indies. View more context for this quotation
1844 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. viii. 126 The endless variety of our settlements in all the most remote quarters of the globe!
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People i. §4. 39 Offa resolved to create a military border by planting a settlement of Englishmen between the Severn..and the huge ‘Offa's Dyke’.
1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 159/1 The English settlements in Virginia, New England, Maryland, and Pennsylvania had..developed into a new nation.
b. Of a religious community.
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society > faith > church government > monasticism > [noun] > collectively
religious?c1225
conventc1290
collegec1380
religion1487
religioustyc1530
monkery1549
settlement1708
community1728
familia1869
society > faith > church government > laity > congregation > [noun] > Quaker
settlement1708
1708 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 22) i. iii. i. 201 According as their [sc. the Quakers'] Settlements are more Numerous and Thick.
1884 R. Paton Sc. Church viii. 75 St. Finnian had twelve chief disciples, who filled the land with religious settlements.
1884 R. Paton Sc. Church viii. 81 There was the earthen rampart enclosing the settlement.
15. In the outlying districts of America and the (former) Colonial territories: A small village or collection of houses. Also, the huts forming the living quarters of the slaves on a plantation.
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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
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > quarters > quarters for slaves on plantations
quarter1724
Negro quarters1733
settlement1827
1827 O. W. Roberts Narr. Voy. Central Amer. 31 The terms settlement and plantation mean the residences of the natives.
1839 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation (1863) 18 There are four settlements or villages (or, as the negroes call them, camps) on the island, consisting of from ten to twenty houses.
1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 417 At another plantation..I found the ‘settlement’ arranged in the same way, the cabins only being of a slightly different form.
1884 ‘C. E. Craddock’ In Tennessee Mts. 81 And certainly the instinct of the eagle built that eyrie called the Settlement..far above the towering pine forest.
1896 Trans. Royal Soc. Canada 2 ii. 210 Topographical terms actually used by the people of New Brunswick... Settlement, rarely village.
16. An establishment in the poorer quarters of a large city where educated men or women live in daily personal contact with the working class for co-operation in social reform.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > communal dwelling > of social reformers
settlement1884
1884 Oxf. Mag. 23 Apr. 171/2 Oxford and East London. The Executive Committee of the University Settlement have issued a prospectus and appeal for donations towards the initial expenses of the Settlement.
1884 Oxf. Mag. 23 Apr. 172/1 Nine men have undertaken to commence residence in the Settlement.
1892 Church Times 4 Nov. 1094/1 Those ‘settlements’, or missions, which have become of late such a striking feature in the religious life of London.
1904 D. P. Hughes Life H. P. Hughes ix. 207 A site in the City Road, where it was proposed to erect premises containing full accommodation for a Settlement.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a. (In senses 6, 14.)
settlement area n.
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1963 H. N. Savory in I. L. Foster & L. Alcock Culture & Environment iii. 31 The south Wales seaboard was a primary settlement-area of the continental colonists.
1977 Word 28 72 Brittany is a dispersed settlement area, and farms are either isolated or in small clusters.
settlement pattern n.
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1958 G. Lienhardt Tribes without Rulers 98 Dinka settlement-patterns differ from each other according to the two broadly different kinds of country.
b. (In sense 9b.)
settlement price n.
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1928 Daily Mail 25 July 19/3 Tin: Standard cash quoted £217 10s. to £217 12s. 6d.; three months, £214 10s. to £214 12s. 6d.; settlement price, £217 10s.
settlement terms n.
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1931 C. Maughan Markets of London 122 Rubber is also sold on ‘settlement terms’, which means that a buyer receives a profit or pays a loss every fortnight, in a similar way to settlements on the Stock Exchange.
C2.
settlement day n. = settling day n. at settling n. 3b.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > stock exchange accounting period > settlement > settlement day
calends1644
settling day1806
account day1815
accounting day1832
payday1858
settlement day1896
1896 W. H. S. Aubrey Stock Exch. Investm. Index 314/2 Settlement days.
1901 C. Duguid How to read Money Article xvii. 75 Directly one account is ended by the fortnightly settlement, another account begins. It commences at noon on the first settlement day.
settlement house n. U.S. an institution in an inner city area, usually sponsored by a church or college, that gives educational, recreational, and other social services to the community (cf. sense 16).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > public building > [noun] > centre for recreational or educational activities
social centre1869
community centre1899
settlement house1907
leisure centre1935
1907 J. Strong Challenge of City 307 Your letter..was duly received and reply thereto delayed awaiting report from the inspection districts wherein are located the Settlement houses you mentioned.
1959 New Statesman 24 Oct. 534/2 In relation to the street gangs, most of these disquisitions regard the conventional ‘agencies’—boys' clubs, mixed clubs, settlement houses, community centres—as ineffectual.
1978 G. Vidal Kalki v. 114 Of course, Amelia did work in settlement houses, helping the poor.
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The resolution of a lawsuit by private out-of-court agreement between the parties; (the terms of) such an agreement.
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1851 R. W. Landis Bethlehem Church & its Pastor ii. viii. 112 It was like two men who differ about book account, and get into law—and when in court ask liberty to go out and make a settlement.
1896 Argosy Jan. 394/1 There was waged for years a legal battle costing thousands of dollars through its numerous appeals, but which came to a quiet and decisive settlement independent of any court authority.
1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 5/2 Including cases in which he induced a settlement at an earlier stage, the proportion of compromised cases was decidedly more than half.
1936 M. R. Anand Coolie iii. 110 ‘Very good, very good,’ said Sir Todar Mal, seeing the prospect of unpleasantness if he washed his dirty linen in public, and of honourable settlement out of court, as it were, in the way that the Secretary suggested.
1995 Virginia Gaz. 15 Feb. a3/1 The settlement is under ‘court seal’, which prohibits the public from finding out specifics of the deal made between the plaintiff and defendant.
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