单词 | settler |
释义 | settlerset‧tler /ˈsetlə $ -ər/ ●○○ noun [countable] Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorsomeone who lives in a place► population Collocations all the people in a country or town or area, or the number of people who live in it: · In Ghana 46% of the population is under 16 years of age.· The patients have been isolated to keep the disease from spreading to the rest of the population.population of: · The population of Singapore is almost 3 million.the adult/Muslim/black etc population (=all the people in a place who are adult, Muslim etc): · Ninety percent of the adult population is literate.population growth: · The U.S. has a rate of population growth that is five times that of Europe. ► resident someone who lives in a particular area of a town, a particular street or building etc: · Local residents are protesting about the new road.· Parking spaces are for residents only.resident of: · Residents of Glacier Bay are complaining about the pollution caused by cruise ships. ► inhabitant written one of the people who live in a place, especially in a town or city or in an area of a country: · Copenhagen has about 1.4 million inhabitants.· This is a poor rural area, with only one doctor per 10,000 inhabitants.inhabitant of: · Nearly 36% of the inhabitants of Saudi Arabia are resident foreigners. ► citizen someone who lives in a particular country or city and who has the right to be protected by its laws: · The police asked if we were both British citizens.citizen of: · The court's ruling should be of interest to every citizen of Texas. ► local informal someone who lives in a particular area, especially in a village or small town: · If you get lost just ask one of the locals for directions.· Denver International Airport was built in an area that locals call "Tornado Alley." ► tenant someone who lives in a house, flat, or room and regularly pays money to the person who owns it: · Tenants are not allowed to keep pets.· Have you found any tenants for your house yet?tenant of: · Twelve tenants of the Lockwood housing complex are taking part in the lawsuit against their landlord. ► occupant formal someone who lives in a particular house, room etc: · They have left all the furniture and carpets in the house for the next occupant.occupant of: · Occupants of the building are understandably upset about the high-rise going up next door. ► occupier especially British formal the person who lives in a particular house, flat etc - used especially in official documents: · The document has to be signed by the occupier of every household.owner-occupier (=someone who lives in a house that they own): · The new law affects everyone from tenants to owner-occupiers. ► squatter someone who lives in an empty building without paying rent and without having permission to live there: · Police have removed over 50 squatters from the housing estate.· Squatters insist that without their work, the buildings would have deteriorated to the point of being unusable. ► settler someone who goes to live in a place that people have never lived in before: · Many of the earliest settlers here dies from disease and hunger.· Settlers found a plentiful supply of fruit and game in the nearby forests. WORD SETS► Anthropologyclansman, nounclanswoman, nounculturally, adverbculture, noundemography, noun-ese, suffixethnic, adjectiveethnography, nounethnology, nounfirst generation, nounintermarry, verbinterracial, adjectivekinship, nounmegalith, nounnative, adjectiveneanderthal, nounNeanderthal man, nounNeolithic, adjectivenomad, nounorientalist, nounpeace pipe, nounprimitive, adjectiveprimordial, adjectivepygmy, nounracial, adjectivesavage, adjectivesavage, nounsettlement, nounsettler, nountaboo, adjectivetotem, nountotem pole, nountribal, adjectivetribalism, nountribe, nountribesman, nountribeswoman, nountroglodyte, nounwampum, nounwar dance, nounwar paint, nounwhite, adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► early someone who goes to live in a country or area where not many people like them have lived before, and that is a long way from any towns or cities: early settlers in Australia· The Romans were early settlers here, and the village was thriving during the survey for the Domesday Book.· Joseph and Leavenworth meant two days saved for early settlers heading west in ox-drawn wagons.· The earliest settlers left behind them a remarkable array of monuments: standing stones, burial chambers, villages and brochs.· This is a mile-long limestone scar, given the name of Fell End Clouds by the imaginative early settlers in the district.· They went out of the door chatting about having seen the land as the early settlers found it.· The straightness of the rods and the plant's natural pliability made it a valuable construction material for early settlers.· To a town dweller the silence is eerie - so this is how the wilderness felt to the early explorers and settlers. ► new· Although it was evacuated in 1586, new settlers came later in the year, and were reinforced in 1587.· Porter developed the Breckenridge Ski Area, luring new settlers to a land of white gold.· There were no new settlers, no new buildings. ► original· Martin Fugate, the original settler, had been a rare carrier of the met-H gene.· Pollock was the pathfinder, the original settler. ► white· He is part-aboriginal by nurture and white by nature; and the mixture shakes the white settlers to their roots.· He concluded that the Seminoles had independently decided to go west because game was exhausted and white settlers were approaching their land.· Smith presided over a white settler population of 240,000 that ruled a black population of 4.8 million.· In every part of the continent white explorers and settlers observed the making and use of maps for indigenous purposes. VERB► kill· Crop failure and famine killed the settlers. |
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