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white settler

noun

  1. a well-off incomer to a district who takes advantage of what it has to offer without regard to the local inhabitants
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

The white settler was daily in greater danger, and constantly more eager for revenge.

The first white settler was David McKee, who established a ferry here in 1769.

For observe it is not against the black aboriginal that the prejudices and interests of the white settler or trader are arrayed.

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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