settlement
Meaning of settlement
noun
- The act of settling.
- The state of being settled.
- A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled.
- A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city.
- The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
- The delivery of goods by the seller and payment for them by the buyer, under a previously agreed trade or transaction or contract entered into.
- A disposition of property, or the act of granting it.
- A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence.
- A resolution of a dispute.
Information about settlement
- It is a name.
- The plural form of settlement is: settlements.
- Languages in which settlement is used:
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Hyphenation of settlement
set-tle-ment
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- settlement is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
settlement synonyms
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Translation of settlement
- French: ville, commune, installation
- German: Gemeinde, Ortschaft, Siedlung
- Italian: comune, cittadina, insediamento
- Spanish: asentamiento, ciudad, pueblo, villa, establecimiento
- Portuguese: estabelecimento
Words that rhyme with settlement
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