Settlements

What does SETTLEMENTS mean?

Settlements is a form of SETTLEMENT.

1. noun

   a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government

   “the American colony in Paris”

2. noun

   a community of people smaller than a town

3. noun

   a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it

4. noun

   the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies

   “the British colonization of America”

Definitions from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University.