Settlements is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SETTLEMENTS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• SETTLEMENT, the act of settling
• a formal arrangement made between the parties to a lawsuit in order to resolve it, especially out of court
• the process of establishing a settlement or settlements
• the action of allowing or helping people to establish settlements
• the property given under a settlement.
• an official agreement intended to resolve a dispute or conflict
• a place, typically one which has previously been uninhabited, where people establish a community
• an arrangement whereby property passes to a succession of people as dictated by the settlor
• the action or process of settling an account
• subsidence of the ground or a structure built on it
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act or process of settling

Words related to SETTLEMENTS

settlement12

Words that contain SETTLEMENTS

resettlements15 unsettlements15 outsettlements16 presettlements18

How to use SETTLEMENTS in a sentence

• For a long time scarcely any effort was made to form permanent settlements, and the attempts that were by and by made were unsuccessful.
• Between the Atlantic Ocean and the Alleghany Mountains there were thirteen colonies, or great settlements.
• You have learned, also, that they had made thirteen great settlements along the coast, while all the vast region west of the mountains remained a wild and unknown land.
• The little settlements, wherever water and soil permitted, were from twenty to fifty miles apart.
• Each settlement or group of settlements had to rely on the prowess of its own hunter-soldiers for safety.
• When he left he told them he was making a little trip through the settlements to the north, possibly as far as Cedar City.
• He was resolved that the settlements should not extend faster than was necessary, and that as much of civilization should go with them as was attainable.
• The great antiquity of this place is marked by its occurrence in the Zendavesta among the primitive settlements of the Arians.
• On both sides alike there was absolutely nothing to prevent the two young people from being married as soon as the settlements could be drawn.
• We have noticed how the Irish missionary-artists carried their work to their continental settlements, how they planted their schools in Burgundy, Switzerland, and Lombardy.
• The inhabitants of the plains fled to the mountains, where they founded new settlements.
• They are also the sites of all the Navaho settlements in the canyon.
• The Onondagas repulsed the Canadian allies who returned to their settlements, where Champlain remained during the winter of 1616.
• Betty, in these frontier settlements a man is soon known for his real worth.
• Having examined the surrounding districts, Sandoval divided them among the different settlements.
• Still others did not even do so much, but merely put forth one excuse after another to explain why their tracts remained without settlements at all.
• Summary of the discoveries and settlements of the Spaniards in the West Indies, from the death of Columbus to the expedition of Hernando Cortes against Mexico, Introduction.
• Nearly all the settlements of the Acadians were in that vicinity, and for the most part within the peninsula.
• A cry of terror and anguish rose throughout the settlements.
• Cross Creek, now Fayetteville, was the center of these Highland settlements, and hither came the Scottish heroine, Flora MacDonald, in 1775.
• Many of the people in the back settlements are already little attached to particular situations.
• As it was forty miles back from the settlements, it seemed a perfect place for Upweekis to make a den in.
• Being one of the oldest colonial settlements, it is full of interesting traditions and relics of the early inhabitants, both Indians and Englishmen.
• But after a while the Indians were driven away from the settlements, and the soldiers were ordered to the South, for it was in the time of the Civil War.

Similar words containing SETTLEMENT without suffix s

settlement12 resettlement14 unsettlement14 outsettlement15 presettlement17 resettlements15 unsettlements15 outsettlements16 presettlements18

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