Dictionary entry details
• SETTLEMENT (noun)
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
colony; settlement
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"):
proprietary colony (a colony given to a proprietor to govern (in 17th century))
Plantation (a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America))
frontier settlement; outpost (a settlement on the frontier of civilization)
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)
Meaning:
A community of people smaller than a town
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
small town; village; settlement
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)
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)
Meaning:
The act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
colonisation; colonization; settlement
Context example:
the British colonization of America
Hypernyms ("settlement" is a kind of...):
constitution; establishment; formation; organisation; organization (the act of forming something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "settlement"):
population (the act of populating (causing to live in a place))
Meaning:
Something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
closure; settlement; resolution
Context examples:
the finally reached a settlement with the union / they never did achieve a final resolution of their differences / he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure
Hypernyms ("settlement" is a kind of...):
deciding; decision making (the cognitive process of reaching a decision)
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)
Meaning:
Termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
liquidation; settlement
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)
