A person who causes a place to become peopled or occupied; a colonizer, an inhabitant. Also in extended use.

The founder of a colony; an early settler, a colonist; (in Ireland) an English or Scottish settler planted on forfeited lands in the 17th cent. Now…

A settler, a colonist. Cf. planter, n. 2a. Now historical and rare.

A person who goes to settle in a place, esp. as part of an effort (typically by a foreign state) to appropriate the area settled and to assert…

A person who or thing which populates a place.

One who stocks or peoples.

One who settles in a new country; a colonist. old settler: see old settler n. at old, adj. compounds 4. Originally North American.

(a) a white person who settles in a non-white territory; (b) (Scottish, frequently depreciative) a person, typically one from an urban or affluent…

a colonist.

A person who settles in a place as part of an effort (typically by a foreign state) to appropriate the area settled and to assert political control…

A supporter or advocate of colonization; esp. a proponent of the resettlement of emancipated slaves and free black people from America in…

A colonial settler or farmer, esp. in a French colony. Now historical.

North American. A person who claims or occupies a homestead (homestead, n. 2b). Now historical.

a person settled or working in a plantation or colony, a colonist; (also) the owner of a plantation.