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say it: SET-uhl-muhnt
settlement is a noun meaning "a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government". It carries 7 recorded senses.
a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government
“the American colony in Paris”
a community of people smaller than a town
a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it
the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies
“the British colonization of America”
something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
“they finally reached a settlement with the union”
“they never did achieve a final resolution of their differences”
“he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure”
an area where a group of families live together
termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for settlement come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.