Settlements Synonyms and Antonyms

A community of people smaller than a town
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. villages
  2. hamlets
  3. towns
A colony
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. foundations
  2. establishments
  3. plantations
  4. principalities
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
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. arrangements
  2. resolutions
  3. closures
  4. covenants
  5. sediments
  6. compromises
  7. regulations
  8. payments
  9. colonies
  10. compositions
  11. ordinations
  12. installations
  13. establishments
  14. determinations
  15. accommodations
  16. decisions
  17. conclusions
  18. agreements
  19. compensations
  20. media
  21. adjustments
  22. compact
Antonyms:
  1. confusions
Termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. compensations
  2. liquidations
  3. remunerations

Settlements Sentence Examples

  • It derives its designation from the settlements on the Gabun river or Rio de Gabao.

  • Settlements belonging to the Stone age, and manufactories of stone implements, burial-grounds of the Bronze epoch, earthen forts and burial-mounds (kurgans) - of this last four different types are known, the earliest belonging to the Bronze period - are superposed, rendering the task of unravelling their several relations one of great difficulty.

  • Finland; the Karelians, in the E., who also occupy the lake regions of Olonets and Archangel, and have settlements in Novgorod and Tver; the Izhores, on the Neva and the S.E.

  • All the French settlements in India were promptly occupied.

  • The settlements of Lower Saginaw and Portsmouth were made in 1837, and were later united to form Bay City, which was incorporated as a village in 1859, and chartered as a city in 1865.

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