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Settler vs Immigrate - What's the difference?

settler | immigrate |

As a noun settler

is someone who settles in a new location, especially one who makes a previously uninhabited place his home.

As a verb immigrate is

to move into a country from another one to stay permanently.

settler

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia settler)
  • someone who settles in a new location, especially one who makes a previously uninhabited place his home
  • the first settlers of New England
  • someone who decides something, such as a dispute
  • (British) the person in a betting shop who calculates the winnings
  • A drink which settles the stomach, especially a bitter drink, often a nightcap.
  • A vessel, such as a tub, in which something, such as pulverized ore suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle.
  • (colloquial) That which settles or finishes, such as a blow that decides a contest.
  • Anagrams

    * * * ---- ==Jèrriais==

    Verb

    (roa-jer-verb)
  • to settle
  • immigrate

    English

    Verb

    (immigrat)
  • To move into a country from another one to stay permanently.
  • Antonyms

    * emigrate

    Derived terms

    * immigrant * immigration