settlement

settlement is a 10-letter English word with 20 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of setting, or the state of being settled. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 20 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of setting, or the state of being settled.
2. noun. Establishment in life, in business, condition, etc.; ordination or installation as pastor.
3. noun. The act of peopling, or state of being peopled; act of planting, as a colony; colonization; occupation by settlers; as, the settlement of a new country.
4. noun. The act or process of adjusting or determining; composure of doubts or differences; pacification; liquidation of accounts; arrangement; adjustment; as, settlement of a controversy, of accounts, etc.
5. noun. Bestowal, or giving possession, under legal sanction; the act of giving or conferring anything in a formal and permanent manner.
6. noun. A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it.
7. noun. That which settles, or is settled, established, or fixed.
8. noun. Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs.
9. noun. A colony newly established; a place or region newly settled; as, settlement in the West.
10. noun. That which is bestowed formally and permanently; the sum secured to a person; especially, a jointure made to a woman at her marriage; also, in the United States, a sum of money or other property formerly granted to a pastor in additional to his salary.
11. noun. The gradual sinking of a building, whether by the yielding of the ground under the foundation, or by the compression of the joints or the material.
12. noun. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
13. noun. A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of residence; legal residence or establishment of a person in a particular parish or town, which entitles him to maintenance if a pauper, and subjects the parish or town to his support.
14. noun. termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities

    Synonyms: liquidation

15. noun. the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies

    "the British colonization of America"

    Synonyms: colonisation, colonization

16. noun. something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making

    "they finally reached a settlement with the union"

    "they never did achieve a final resolution of their differences"

    Synonyms: closure, resolution

17. noun. a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it
18. noun. a community of people smaller than a town

    Synonyms: village

19. noun. 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

    "the American colony in Paris"

    Synonyms: colony

20. noun. an area where a group of families live together

Synonyms

liquidation, colonisation, colonization, closure, resolution, village, colony

Common word forms

settlements

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