English Explanatory Dictionary

settlement

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act of settling.
  2. The state of being settled.
  3. A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled.
  4. A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city; a populated place.
  5. A site where people used to live together in ancient times; an ancient simple kind of village.
  6. The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
  7. The delivery of goods by the seller and payment for them by the buyer, under a previously agreed trade or transaction or contract entered into.
  8. A disposition of property, or the act of granting it.
  9. A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence.
  10. A resolution of a dispute.
  11. A mutual agreement to end a dispute without resorting to legal proceedings, also known as an out-of-court settlement or settling out of court.
  12. An estate or district in Anglo-Indian Bengal where, instead of taking a quota of the year's produce, the government took a fixed sum several times a year from the local cultivators.

Pronunciation

/ˈsɛ.təl.mənt/ [ˈsɛtəɫmənt] [ˈsɛtɫ̩mn̩t] en-us-settlement.ogg

Word forms

settlement settlements

Etymology

From settle + -ment.

Synonyms

settlement arrangement disposition

Related words

settler municipality

Derived words

antisettlement dissettlement human settlement life settlement nonsettlement outsettlement phantom settlement postsettlement presettlement resettlement settlement agreement settlementation settlement currency settlement date settlement house settlement tank unsettlement urban-type settlement viatical settlement
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