settlement

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: settlement

1	n	the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies
2	n	something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: settlement

Type of:: constitution, establishment, formation, organisation, organization
the act of forming or establishing something

Examples:: show 4 examples...; hide 4 examples...; Demerara
a former Dutch colony in South America; now a part of Guyana; Rock of Gibraltar
location of a colony of the United Kingdom on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; strategically important because it can control the entrance of ships into the Mediterranean; one of the Pillars of Hercules; Plymouth Colony
colony formed by the Pilgrims when they arrived at Plymouth Rock in 1620; it was absorbed into the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691; New Amsterdam
a settlement established by the Dutch near the mouth of Hudson River and the southern end of Manhattan Island; annexed by the English in 1664 and renamed New York

Types:: frontier settlement, outpost
a settlement on the frontier of civilization; Plantation
a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America); proprietary colony
a colony given to a proprietor to govern (in 17th century)

Type of:: body
a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity

Types:: moshav
a cooperative Israeli village or settlement comprised of small farms

Examples:: show 8 examples...; hide 8 examples...; Cheddar
a village in southwestern England where cheddar cheese was first made; Sealyham
a village in southwestern Wales where the Sealyham terrier was first bred; El Alamein
a village to the west of Alexandria on the northern coast of Egypt; the scene of a decisive Allied victory over the Germans in 1942; Jericho
a village in Palestine near the north end of the Dead Sea; in the Old Testament it was the first place taken by the Israelites under Joshua as they entered the Promised Land; Jamestown
a former village on the James River in Virginia to the north of Norfolk; site of the first permanent English settlement in America in 1607; Chancellorsville
a village in northeastern Virginia; Spotsylvania
a village in northeastern Virginia where battles were fought during the American Civil War; Yorktown
a historic village in southeastern Virginia to the north of Newport News; site of the last battle of the American Revolution

Types:: show 4 types...; hide 4 types...; hamlet, village
a settlement smaller than a town; campong, kampong
a native village in Malaysia; kraal
a village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa; usually surrounded by a stockade; pueblo
a communal village built by Indians in the southwestern United States

Type of:: geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region
a demarcated area of the Earth

“they finally reached a settlement with the union”

Type of:: deciding, decision making
the cognitive process of reaching a decision

Examples:: Missouri Compromise
an agreement in 1820 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States concerning the extension of slavery into new territories

Types:: show 7 types...; hide 7 types...; accommodation
a settlement of differences; conclusion
a final settlement; out-of-court settlement
resolution of a dispute prior to the rendering of a final decision by the trial court; property settlement
(matrimonial law) the division of property owned or acquired by marriage partners during their marriage; accord and satisfaction
the settlement of a debt by paying less than the amount demanded in exchange for extinguishing the debt; modus vivendi
a temporary accommodation of a disagreement between parties pending a permanent settlement; compromise
an accommodation in which both sides make concessions

Type of:: agreement, understanding
the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises

Types:: viatical settlement, viaticus settlement
sale of an insurance policy by a terminally ill policy holder

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