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white settler
noun
- a well-off incomer to a district who takes advantage of what it has to offer without regard to the local inhabitants
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Word History and Origins
Origin of white settler1
C20: from earlier colonial sense
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Example Sentences
William D. Brown is conceded to have been the first white settler who staked out a claim on the plateau now occupied by Omaha.
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The white settler was daily in greater danger, and constantly more eager for revenge.
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The first white settler was David McKee, who established a ferry here in 1769.
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For observe it is not against the black aboriginal that the prejudices and interests of the white settler or trader are arrayed.
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The conviction of right and justice in the white settler did not differ from the innate and untutored argument of the Indian.
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