What is the meaning of settled?

verb

  • Settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground.
    • usage: "dust settled on the roofs"
  • Bring to an end; settle conclusively.
    • usage: "The case was decided"; "The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff"; "The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance"
  • Settle conclusively; come to terms.
    • usage: "We finally settled the argument"
  • Take up residence and become established.
    • usage: "The immigrants settled in the Midwest"
  • Come to terms.
    • usage: "After some discussion we finally made up"
  • (v.) ()
  • Become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style.
    • usage: "He finally settled down"
  • Become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet.
    • usage: "The roar settled to a thunder"; "The wind settled in the West"; "it is settling to rain"; "A cough settled in her chest"; "Her mood settled into lethargy"
  • Establish or develop as a residence.
    • usage: "He settled the farm 200 years ago"; "This land was settled by Germans"
  • Come to rest.
  • Arrange or fix in the desired order.
    • usage: "She settled the teacart"
  • Accept despite lack of complete satisfaction.
    • usage: "We settled for a lower price"
  • End a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement.
    • usage: "The two parties finally settled"
  • Dispose of; make a financial settlement.
  • Become clear by the sinking of particles.
    • usage: "the liquid gradually settled"
  • Cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids.
  • Sink down or precipitate.
    • usage: "the mud subsides when the waters become calm"
  • Fix firmly.
    • usage: "He ensconced himself in the chair"
  • Get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury.
    • usage: "I finally settled with my old enemy"
  • Make final; put the last touches on; put into final form.
    • usage: "let's finalize the proposal"
  • Form a community.
    • usage: "The Swedes settled in Minnesota"
  • Come as if by falling.
    • usage: "Night fell"; "Silence fell"

adjective

  • Established or decided beyond dispute or doubt.
    • usage: "with details of the wedding settled she could now sleep at night"
  • Established in a desired position or place; not moving about.
    • usage: "nomads... Absorbed among the settled people"; "settled areas"; "I don't feel entirely settled here"; "the advent of settled civilization"
  • Inhabited by colonists.
  • Not changeable.
    • usage: "a period of settled weather"
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APAWordNet. (2010). settled. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/settled/definitions/1183290
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