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# settlement

noun (a settlement, settlements)

«settlement» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A place where people have come to live and built homes, such as a village or small town: an early farming settlement. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/settlement/#m1)
2. An agreement that ends an argument or legal case: The two sides reached a settlement. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/settlement/#m2)
3. Paying money that is owed: settlement of a bill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/settlement/#m3)
4. The act of settling in a new land. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/settlement/#m4)
5. Slow sinking of a building or ground. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/settlement/#m5)

### In the lessons

In geography and history lessons: early settlements were built near rivers for water, food and transport; types are hamlet, village, town, city. In maths, settlement populations are compared and ordered. In news, a legal settlement ends a quarrel with a payment. Phrases: «a Viking settlement», «reach a settlement», «in settlement of».

### Examples

- The first settlement was built beside the river. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/settlement/#x1)
- A hamlet is the smallest kind of settlement. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/settlement/#x2)
- The two companies reached a settlement. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/settlement/#x3)
- The settlement had 120 people; the next one had 3 times as many. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/settlement/#x4)
- Archaeologists found an old Viking settlement. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/settlement/#x5)
- He paid $500 in settlement of the bill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/settlement/#x6)
- Early settlements needed water and shelter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/settlement/#x7)
- Hit got so dat fokes in de settlement didn't have no peace. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/settlement/#x8)

### Note

Countable: settlements. Verb: settle; person: settler. Order of settlement size: hamlet \< village \< town \< city.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «settlement» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/settlement/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«settlement» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/settlement.html) on Mova free.