settler

Converse of object

• arrive: The first settlers arrived in 1865, hoping to found a ' New Wales ' .
• attract: Greenland got its name from the verdant pastures that attracted the Norse settlers under Eric the Red in 986.
• bring: These men brought British settlers from Bermuda to the island of New Providence.
• encourage: The Society wanted to encourage settlers to the Highlands of Scotland.
• attack: British efforts to encourage Indians to attack rebellious settlers backfired on them.

Preposition: in

century: The town was settled by Scottish settlers in the nineteenth century.

Adjective modifier

• Norse: In the 9th century, the Scots were supplanted by Norse settlers.
• Dutch: The Boer Wars The Boers were the Dutch settlers in South Africa, who had arrived in the late 17th century.
• Scandinavian: The first recorded name for the island came from the Scandinavian settlers to the area.
• Danish: The Danish settlers who laid claim to land in the Dales from the late 8th century left almost no archeological evidence.

Modifies a noun

• colony: This was certainly not a settlers colony, the rocky, barren outcrop was little more than a fishing station.
• population: The settler population in East Jerusalem is at present estimated to be 170,000.
• society: Her current project is a comparative study of settler society children's literature.

Noun used with modifier

• Viking: Covers topics such as Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greeks, Roman and Viking settlers and Henry VIII.
• pioneer: Truly I sometimes almost regret that I was not born to become a pioneer settler in the African wilds!