noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
early
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The Romans were early settlers here, and the village was thriving during the survey for the Domesday Book.
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Joseph and Leavenworth meant two days saved for early settlers heading west in ox-drawn wagons.
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The earliest settlers left behind them a remarkable array of monuments: standing stones, burial chambers, villages and brochs.
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This is a mile-long limestone scar, given the name of Fell End Clouds by the imaginative early settlers in the district.
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They went out of the door chatting about having seen the land as the early settlers found it.
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The straightness of the rods and the plant's natural pliability made it a valuable construction material for early settlers .
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To a town dweller the silence is eerie - so this is how the wilderness felt to the early explorers and settlers .
new
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Although it was evacuated in 1586, new settlers came later in the year, and were reinforced in 1587.
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Porter developed the Breckenridge Ski Area, luring new settlers to a land of white gold.
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There were no new settlers , no new buildings.
original
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Martin Fugate, the original settler , had been a rare carrier of the met-H gene.
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Pollock was the pathfinder, the original settler .
white
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He is part-aboriginal by nurture and white by nature; and the mixture shakes the white settlers to their roots.
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He concluded that the Seminoles had independently decided to go west because game was exhausted and white settlers were approaching their land.
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Smith presided over a white settler population of 240,000 that ruled a black population of 4.8 million.
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In every part of the continent white explorers and settlers observed the making and use of maps for indigenous purposes.
■ VERB
kill
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Crop failure and famine killed the settlers .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Settlers found a plentiful supply of fruit and game in the nearby forests.
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Eddie's grandfather was one of the town's first settlers.
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Many of the earliest settlers here dies from disease and hunger.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the influx of settlers continued, the Nez Perce now stood alone.
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By the mid-1970s the conflict between the army, the Bengali settlers and the tribespeople was under way.
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He anticipated the motives of explorers, conquerors, and settlers for a couple of centuries to come.
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Sustainable development will depend on a more positive incorporation of women settlers.
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The settlers dispatched messengers to warn their comrades and seek help.
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The settlers, who view themselves as the vanguard before the camp, are here to make sure that they will be.
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The number of graves found in Upper Halling suggests that these were of settlers.
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Two months later, there was an inconclusive exchange of shots between a Nez Perce and one of the settlers.