SETTLEMENT

Pronunciation (US):

• SETTLEMENT (noun)
  The noun SETTLEMENT has 7 senses:

1. 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
2. a community of people smaller than a town
3. a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it
4. the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies
5. something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
6. an area where a group of families live together
7. termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities

  Familiarity information: SETTLEMENT used as a noun is common.

• 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)