| 单词 | white settler |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhite settler white settler n. (a) a white person who settles in a non-white territory; (b) (Scottish, frequently depreciative) a person, typically one from an urban or affluent area of England, who buys a holiday home in the Highlands of Scotland; an incomer. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > colonist or settler > [noun] peopler1566 planter1587 plantator1632 colonist1658 populator1664 storer1690 settler1696 white settler1754 plantationite1756 colonizer1766 colonizationist1823 colon1860 homesteader1870 plantationer1888 1754 Scots Mag. July 347/1 The improvements in the distant parts of this island through which I passed, both as to the increase of sugar-works and white settlers, gave me the truest satisfaction. 1822 J. Neal Logan I. ii. 9 The swarthy and deep, in tinctured hue of the native American had yielded to the hearty brown of the sturdy white settler. 1937 K. Blixen Out of Afr. iv. 298 Kitosch was a young Native in the service of a young white settler of Molo. 1972 Guardian 1 Sept. 8/6 The ‘white settlers’ who buy croft houses for use as holiday homes. 1999 Daily Mail (Nexis) 14 Sept. 13 Were it not for the much despised 'white settlers' the Highlands would probably be in even more of an economic pickle than they are. 2010 Art Q. Summer 40/2 The idea of making pictures on small portable pieces of bark evolved only as a result of contact with white settlers and missionaries during the 20th century. < as lemmas |
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