settler
Someone who settles in a new location; especially one who takes up residence in a previously uninhabited place.
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Her reaction to being next to a disgusting settler is so relatable.
QNN: Earlier today, Israeli settler militias set fire to an agricultural structure in the town of Kafr Ad-Dik, in the central occupied West Bank. #Palestine
General Bluth described the behaviour of Jewish settler gangs in the West Bank as "Israeli terror": "We need to call a spade a spade - when houses are set on fire with their occupants inside, it is Israeli terror." w…
On Settler Colonialism, Its Critics, and Its Critics’ Critics American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 5, Page 1222-1233, March 2026. #sociology link
I made this photograph for my documentary photography project 'Six Miles Deep' about my responsibilities as a white settler on stolen lands. The title of this photo is "The Indian Act."
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Someone who settles in a new location; especially one who takes up residence in a previously uninhabited place.
the first settlers of New England
“On Settler Colonialism, Its Critics, and Its Critics’ Critics American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 5, Page 1222-1233, March 2026. #sociology link”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I made this photograph for my documentary photography project 'Six Miles Deep' about my responsibilities as a white settler on stolen lands. The title of this photo is "The Indian Act."”
— Bluesky· May 2026“As an Indian, and a child of the decolonised world, I have an instinctive antipathy to the idea that democracy is a value of the European or European settler states. To be fair, though, democracy is in steep decline in my own country.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Uh, no. It doesn’t mean that. AND my taxes, as are the taxes of EVERY American, is paying for Israel’s genocide. ALSO, it’s been going on since the west established the Zionist state as a settler colonial project in the ME so they could control oil, AND it’s an apartheid state.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“So you bitch at me for being a non native American in America but you'd call me a settler-colonizer if I moved to my indifferent homeland. You aren't happy no matter where a Jew lives.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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Someone who decides or settles something, such as a dispute.
The law, which let settlers stay on private land if they had built there without knowing the property belonged to Palestinians or had done so at the state’s direction, was backed by Israel’s most right-wing governing coalition to date.
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(colloquial) That which settles or finishes, such as a blow that decides a contest.
It was the racist, settler colonialism that created whiteness, that created blackness, half-caste, quarter-caste, octoroon, that saw mixed-race people as a third race. This belief was one of the drivers of the ‘protection’ laws that led …
"settler" means: That which settles or finishes, such as a blow that decides a contest.. This is informal slang, common in casual speech, texting and social media, but not appropriate for school work, applications or professional settings. There is no real cause for concern in itself; it is everyday peer vocabulary. If your child uses it, a light comment about audience and register is usually enough — no need to escalate. Context, more than the word, tells you whether to follow up.
"settler" means: That which settles or finishes, such as a blow that decides a contest.. Register: informal slang, fine in casual conversation, texting and social media but not in academic essays, business writing or formal speech. A common non-native mistake is to use the word in the wrong register, or to assume one fixed meaning when it is actually polysemous; always check the surrounding register and the audience before producing it yourself. In formal writing, prefer a neutral synonym or a short descriptive phrase, and use this word only when you have heard or read it being used naturally in a comparable context.
“Her reaction to being next to a disgusting settler is so relatable.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“QNN: Earlier today, Israeli settler militias set fire to an agricultural structure in the town of Kafr Ad-Dik, in the central occupied West Bank. #Palestine”
— Bluesky· May 2026“General Bluth described the behaviour of Jewish settler gangs in the West Bank as "Israeli terror": "We need to call a spade a spade - when houses are set on fire with their occupants inside, it is Israeli terror." www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“New blog post by Karine Vanthuyne and colleagues! 🚨 "How do non‑Indigenous (settler) faculty, who remain the majority in most Canadian universities, actually engage with Indigenization in their day‑to‑day teaching?" teachinginhighereducation.wordpress.com/2026/05/05/w...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Israel is a apartheid state, not a democracy. It's a colonial settler project. Committed to ethnic cleansing. It's not a safe haven for the Jewish people. I'm Jewish and I don't feel safe because of Israel. I don't support Zionist Israel.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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