settlement

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of settling.
2. (countable, uncountable) The state of being settled.
3. (countable, uncountable) A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled (even in past times).
4. (countable, uncountable) A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city; a populated place.
5. (countable, uncountable) A site where people used to live together in ancient times; an ancient simple kind of village.
6. (countable, uncountable) The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
7. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, uncountable) A disposition of property, or the act of granting it.
9. (countable, uncountable) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence.
10. (countable, uncountable) A resolution of a dispute.
11. (countable, uncountable) 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. (India, countable, historical, uncountable) 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.

Synonyms

village

colony

decision

town

🏙️

resolution

arrangement

conclusion

colonization

solution

reconciliation

community

agreement

establishment

liquidation

hamlet

colonisation

end

🔚

compromise

determination

rule

accord

payment

💸

mediation

regulation

covenant

city

🏙️

adjustment

bargain

closure

transaction

small town

residence

treaty

rapprochement

population

habitation

fixing

accommodation

foundation

conciliation

concession

account

composition

camp

deposition

clan

company

fix

reimbursement

colonial

Translations

colonie

Siedlung

colonia

règlement

arrangement

asentamiento

village

poblado

Niederlassung

Vergleich

nederzetting

accordo

insediamento

Entscheidung

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsɛt.l̩.mənt/

Etymology

From settle + -ment.

Sentences

He was investigating the possibilities of settlement in the area by his countrymen .

The excavation has discovered three complete settlement layers from the Persian period .

Before the Tatar invasion , settlement was known as Batkay.