Clues for the word "SETTLEMENT"
We've had 24 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 21 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on June 27, 2025.
Definition of settlement
- n. - The act of setting, or the state of being settled.
- n. - Establishment in life, in business, condition, etc.; ordination or installation as pastor.
- n. - The act of peopling, or state of being peopled; act of planting, as a colony; colonization; occupation by settlers; as, the settlement of a new country.
- n. - The act or process of adjusting or determining; composure of doubts or differences; pacification; liquidation of accounts; arrangement; adjustment; as, settlement of a controversy, of accounts, etc.
- n. - Bestowal, or giving possession, under legal sanction; the act of giving or conferring anything in a formal and permanent manner.
- n. - A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it.
- n. - That which settles, or is settled, established, or fixed.
- n. - Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs.
- n. - A colony newly established; a place or region newly settled; as, settlement in the West.
- n. - That which is bestowed formally and permanently; the sum secured to a person; especially, a jointure made to a woman at her marriage; also, in the United States, a sum of money or other property formerly granted to a pastor in additional to his salary.
- n. - The gradual sinking of a building, whether by the yielding of the ground under the foundation, or by the compression of the joints or the material.
- n. - Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
- n. - A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of residence; legal residence or establishment of a person in a particular parish or town, which entitles him to maintenance if a pauper, and subjects the parish or town to his support.
Referring Clues
- Suit ender
- Small community
- Colony
- Newly colonized region
- Final part of a house-buying process
- Colonisation
- Colony - discharge of debt
- The paying of one's debt to the community?
- Reservation
- Community payment
- Colony - discharge
- It resolves difficulties in an isolated village
- Clearance of a colony
- Hamlet - conclusion
- Community to pay workers overtime
- Community decision
- End of dispute in colony
- Arrange the French people time before and after payment
- Colony's resolution
- Hamlet? Singular part, enthralling time after time
- Paying one's bills in the village
- A colonisation that gives satisfaction
- Lawsuit resolution
- Satisfaction is derived from the colonisation
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 15, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 17, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 10, 2017
- Mirror Quick - October 03, 2017
- Family Time - May 21, 2017
- Family Time - January 29, 2017
- Guardian Everyman - December 11, 2016
- Guardian Everyman - July 12, 2015
- Guardian Cryptic - November 26, 2014
- Guardian Quiptic - April 14, 2014
- Guardian Quick - June 17, 2012
- Guardian Cryptic - February 07, 2012
- Guardian Quick - June 16, 2008
- Guardian Cryptic - December 04, 2007
- Guardian Quick - August 28, 2007
- Guardian Cryptic - October 17, 2006
- Guardian Quick - September 30, 2005
- Guardian Cryptic - January 10, 2003
- New York Times - January 02, 2001
- Guardian Cryptic - August 03, 1999