- (n.) Establishment in life, in business, condition, etc.; ordination or installation as pastor.
- (n.) Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs.
- (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.
- (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.
- (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.
- (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.
- (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.
- (n.) The act of setting or the state of being settled.
- (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.
- (n.) Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
- (n.) A colony newly established; a place or region newly settled; as, settlement in the West.
- (n.) Bestowal or giving possession, under legal sanction; the act of giving or conferring anything in a formal and permanent manner.
- (n.) That which settles or is settled, established or fixed.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
| APA | Webster's. (2011). settlement. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/settlement/definitions/2060853 |
| Chicago | Webster's. 2011. "settlement" http://smartdefine.org/settlement/definitions/2060853 (accessed September 20, 2026). |
| Harvard | Webster's 2011, settlement, Smart Define, viewed 20 September, 2026, <http://smartdefine.org/settlement/definitions/2060853>. |
| MLA | Webster's. "settlement" 28 May 2011. Web. 20 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/settlement/definitions/2060853> |