A person who causes a place to become peopled or occupied; a colonizer, an inhabitant. Also in extended use.
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释义 | society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > colonist or settler > [noun] (58) peopler1566 A person who causes a place to become peopled or occupied; a colonizer, an inhabitant. Also in extended use. planter1587 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… plantator1632 A settler, a colonist. Cf. planter, n. 2a. Now historical and rare. colonist1658 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… populator1664 A person who or thing which populates a place. storer1690 One who stocks or peoples. settler1696 One who settles in a new country; a colonist. old settler: see old settler n. at old, adj. compounds 4. Originally North American. white settler1754 (a) a white person who settles in a non-white territory; (b) (Scottish, frequently depreciative) a person, typically one from an urban or affluent… plantationite1756 a colonist. colonizer1766 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… colonizationist1823 A supporter or advocate of colonization; esp. a proponent of the resettlement of emancipated slaves and free black people from America in… colon1860 A colonial settler or farmer, esp. in a French colony. Now historical. homesteader1870 North American. A person who claims or occupies a homestead (homestead, n. 2b). Now historical. plantationer1888 a person settled or working in a plantation or colony, a colonist; (also) the owner of a plantation. Subcategories:— collectively (8) — office or condition of (1) — inhabitant of colony (4) — member of labour colony (1) — frontiersman or pioneer (7) — illegal settler (2) — other specific colonists or settlers (21) |
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