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SETTLEMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("settlement" is a kind of...):
conclusion; ending; termination (the act of ending something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "settlement"):
viatical settlement; viaticus settlement (sale of an insurance policy by a terminally ill policy holder)
Derivation:
settle (accept despite lack of complete satisfaction)
settle (dispose of; make a financial settlement)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies
Example:
the British colonization of America
Synonyms:
colonisation; colonization; settlement
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("settlement" is a kind of...):
constitution; establishment; formation; organisation; organization (the act of forming or establishing something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "settlement"):
population (the act of populating (causing to live in a place))
Derivation:
settle (take up residence and become established)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
Example:
he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure
Synonyms:
closure; resolution; settlement
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("settlement" is a kind of...):
deciding; decision making (the cognitive process of reaching a decision)
Derivation:
settle (end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("settlement" is a kind of...):
agreement; understanding (the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "settlement"):
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)
Derivation:
settle (bring to an end; settle conclusively)
settle (settle conclusively; come to terms)
settle (end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A community of people smaller than a town
Synonyms:
settlement; small town; village
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("settlement" is a kind of...):
community (a group of people living in a particular local area)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "settlement"):
moshav (a cooperative Israeli village or settlement comprised of small farms)
Sense 6
Meaning:
A body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government
Example:
the American colony in Paris
Synonyms:
colony; settlement
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("settlement" is a kind of...):
body (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity)
Meronyms (members of "settlement"):
colonial (a resident of a colony)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "settlement"):
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))
Instance hyponyms:
Demerara (a former Dutch colony in South America; now a part of Guyana)
Calpe; Gibraltar; 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)
Derivation:
settle (take up residence and become established)
settle (form a community)
settle (establish or develop as a residence)
Sense 7
Meaning:
An area where a group of families live together
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("settlement" is a kind of...):
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "settlement"):
hamlet; village (a settlement smaller than a town)
Derivation:
settle (take up residence and become established)
settle (form a community)
settle (establish or develop as a residence)
Context examples:
And there was no settlement of the little property—the house and garden—the what's-its-name Rookery without any rooks in it—upon her boy?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Edith sent Hans to their cabins to get them to take Dennin down the coast in a canoe to the nearest white settlement or trading post, but the errand was fruitless.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
It plays a significant role in Native Hawaiian creation and settlement stories, and is used to practice important activities like traditional long-distance voyaging and wayfinding.
(National monument in Hawaii becomes world's largest marine protected area, NOAA)
Major environmental changes, largely caused by harmful human activities since European settlement, are adding to the extent of coral bleaching, sea surface temperature rises, declines in coral coverage and water quality; all of which greatly affect the reef’s ability to adapt and survive.
(Major study reveals Great Barrier Reef’s 30,000-year fight for survival, University of Granada)
Of a very considerable fortune, his son was, by marriage settlements, eventually secure; his present income was an income of independence and comfort, and under every pecuniary view, it was a match beyond the claims of their daughter.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
If, as I conclude will be the case, you send me full powers to act in your name throughout the whole of this business, I will immediately give directions to Haggerston for preparing a proper settlement.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The Eldgjá lava flood affected southern Iceland within a century of the island’s settlement by Vikings and Celts around 874, but until now the date of the eruption has been uncertain, hindering investigation of its likely impacts.
(Volcanic eruption influenced Iceland’s conversion to Christianity, University of Cambridge)
Last year, the NFL acknowledged for the first time publicly a link between head blows sustained on the football field and brain disease and agreed to a $1 billion settlement to compensate former players who suffer from head trauma-related injuries.
(Study: Brain Disease Found in Nearly All Deceased US Football Players, VOA News)
These age-old lakes have long tolerated the presence of humans, supporting some of the earliest known settlements and playing key roles in our cultural evolution and development, state Stephanie Hampton, a limnologist (lake scientist) at Washington State University.
(Ancient lakes: eyes into the past, and the future, National Science Foundation)
Little has changed in the land distribution of the devastation: the largest portion of the total area deforested over the 12-month period consisted of private properties (35.4%), followed by land reform settlements (28.6%), unassigned public land (24%) and conservancy units (12%).
(Amazon lost 7,989 km² of forest in 12 months, Agência Brasil)
