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Answer for the clue "Frontier colonizer ", 7 letters:
settler

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Word definitions for settler in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "a thing that settles" (a debate, etc.); agent noun from settle (v.). Meaning "a person who moves into a new country" is from 1690s.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Settler \Set"tler\, n. One who settles, becomes fixed, established, etc. Especially, one who establishes himself in a new region or a colony; a colonist; a planter; as, the first settlers of New England. That which settles or finishes; hence, a blow, etc., ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE early ▪ The Romans were early settlers here, and the village was thriving during the survey for the Domesday Book. ▪ Joseph and Leavenworth meant two days saved for early settlers heading west in ox-drawn wagons. ...

Usage examples of settler.

Up till now, to his own surprise, all three of his fellow absconders had acted as if he were still one of them, in equal peril from outsiders-or settlers, like the Meldrums-and therefore bent, as they were, on escape.

Perhaps the best view of all, however, is that after the early settlers of Eastern Polynesia were released from the conservative influence of Western Polynesian technology, they tanged some of their adzes and made other innovations in their artifacts.

Bob, on the previous evening, now rushed into the mind of Arabin, and he called the settler aside and informed him of it, and inquired if he thought his men would steal or conceal the horse.

These traditions may well betoken the dispersal of early settlers from the Hauraki area.

I see for Colonel Bogey perhaps the basic stores and tool pack which are given to a star-world settler joining a colony.

Swanee noticed the one they called Bowler at the far side of the courtyard from the musicians, talking to a group of six human settlers.

I was simply submitting arbitrarily selected insights as to the character and background of Centennial and its settlers, and I could depend upon the home office to polish whatever segments they might want to publish.

No wonder the cetacean settlers wanted nothing to do with the local humanity.

That of the Spanish settlers was entirely ineffectual, and has remained so down to the present day, when still the shattered remnants of the Lules, Lenguas, Mocobios, and the rest, roam on their horses or in their canoes about the Chaco and its rivers, having received no other benefits from contact with the European races but gunpowder and gin.

The weather having cleared, the settlers climbed the height above Granite House.

About this time the settlers cleared three acres of the plateau, and the rest was preserved in a wild state, for the benefit of the onagers.

Most of the people who walked the streets were either emancipists, ticket of leavers or active prisoners, and all felt they had just cause to resent authority and to keep some things secret from the free settlers whom they disliked almost as much.

Derian hoped Firekeeper could work out something that would enable Ewen and his settlers to come to terms with the Beasts.

Tedric to order Ewen Brooks and his settlers to leave the land west of the Iron Mountains, how Tedric had not only agreed to do so, but to issue a declaration making such settlements illegal.

New England shall have risen to its intended grandeur, it shall be as carefully recorded among the registers of the literati that Adams flourished in the second century after the exode of its first settlers from Great Britain, as it is now that Cicero was born in the six-hundred-and-forty-seventh year after the building of Rome.