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Narrator: Today's word is "Settler" — noun, pronounced /ˈsetlə(r)/, with the stress on "set".
Narrator: A settler is a person who moves to a new area and makes a permanent home there.
Narrator: In plain English, it is a newcomer who stays.
Narrator: It comes from settle plus -er.
Narrator: A common collocation is "early settlers", which describes the first people to arrive somewhere.
Narrator: It differs from "migrant", because settler stresses building a permanent community.
Narrator: In a second sense, settler histories often involve displacement of Indigenous peoples.
Narrator: History, politics, geography and genealogy all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: a settler settles, for better or worse.
Speaker A: Who built the first houses here?
Speaker B: Viking SETTLERS! From settle.
Speaker A: From Norway?
Speaker B: And Denmark.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "Early settlers farmed the valley", history. "Settlers arrived by ship", migration. "Settler colonialism harmed Indigenous peoples", politics.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Spell it with double "t", "settler".
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Pioneer is its cousin, colonist its twin, and newcomer an alternative — yet settler keeps its rooted weight!
Speaker B: Let's use "settler" in AI prompts — useful for history lessons and games.
Speaker A: How for history?
Speaker B: Balanced view.
Prompt: Explain the arrival of settlers in New Zealand, including Māori perspectives.
Speaker A: And games?
Speaker B: Mechanics.
Prompt: Design a strategy game where settlers build farms, roads and markets.
Speaker A: Could it help genealogy?
Speaker B: Yes, for records.
Prompt: Suggest sources for tracing a nineteenth-century settler in Canada.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Museums.
Prompt: Write a balanced exhibit text about Viking settlers in York.
Settler — meaning in Arabic & definition More S courses GL Dictionary