Crossword-Solution: SETTLEMENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Settlement | n. | The act of setting, or the state of being settled. |
| Settlement | n. | Establishment in life, in business, condition, etc.; ordination or installation as pastor. |
| Settlement | n. | 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. |
| Settlement | n. | 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. |
| Settlement | n. | Bestowal, or giving possession, under legal sanction; the act of giving or conferring anything in a formal and permanent manner. |
| Settlement | n. | 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. |
| Settlement | n. | That which settles, or is settled, established, or fixed. |
| Settlement | n. | Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs. |
| Settlement | n. | A colony newly established; a place or region newly settled; as, settlement in the West. |
| Settlement | n. | 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. |
| Settlement | n. | 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. |
| Settlement | n. | Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement. |
| Settlement | n. | 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. |
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Sentences with SETTLEMENT (5)
They rushed clamorously into the presence of the Lioness and demanded of her the settlement of the dispute.
Certain it is that, some fifteen or twenty years after the settlement of the town, the wooden jail was already marked with weather-stains and other indications of age, which gave a yet darker aspect to its beetle-browed and gloomy front.
PKWare settled out of court to avoid enormous legal costs (both SEA and PKWare are small companies); as part of the settlement, the name of PKARC was changed to PKPAK.
Some say that the place was bewitched by a High German doctor, during the early days of the settlement; others, that an old Indian chief, the prophet or wizard of his tribe, held his powwows there before the country was discovered by Master Hendrick Hudson.
The Kronborgs lived half a mile south of the church, on the long street that stretched out like an arm to the depot settlement.
Quotes with SETTLEMENT (3)
Skepticism is thus a resting-place for human reason, where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderings and make survey of the region in which it finds itself, so that for the future it may be able to choose its path with more certainty. But it is no dwelling-place for permanent settlement. Such can be obtained only through perfect certainty in our knowledge, alike of the objects themselves and of the limits within which all our knowledge of objects is enclosed.
If the people of Europe had known as much of astronomy and geology when the bible was introduced among them, as they do now, there never could have been one believer in the doctrine of inspiration. If the writers of the various parts of the bible had known as much about the sciences as is now known by every intelligent man, the book never could have been written. It was produced by ignorance, and has been believed and defended by its author. It has lost power in the proportio…
Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1971–2019).