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Anthropologists record the tribal displacement of native settlers who drive another tribe from the lands it held, such as the settlement of lands in the area now called Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, where the Ohlone people settled in areas that were previously inhabited by the Esselen people. [8]
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
Settlement geography, investigating the part of the Earth's surface settled by humans; Settlement movement, a Victorian era reformist social movement; Settlement school, social reform institutions established in rural Appalachia in the early 20th century; Settler colonialism, replacing the original population with a new society of settlers
London, a city in the United Kingdom, is a large settlement with a human population of 14 million in its metropolitan area.. In geography, statistics and archaeology, a settlement, locality or populated place is a community of people living in a particular place.
By the 1710s, the word was also being used to describe large farms where cash crop goods were produced, typically in tropical regions. [1] The first plantations were established during the Edwardian conquest of Wales and the plantations of Ireland by the English Crown.
Words with specific American meanings that have different meanings in British English and/or additional meanings common to both dialects (e.g., pants, crib) are to be found at List of words having different meanings in British and American English. When such words are herein used or referenced, they are marked with the flag [DM] (different ...
In trust law, a settlor is a person who settles (i.e. gives into trust) their property for the benefit of the beneficiary.In some legal systems, a settlor is also referred to as a trustor, or occasionally, a grantor or donor.
Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...