English Dictionary

settlement

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈset.l.mənt/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

The act of settling. / The state of being settled. / A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled (even in past times).

日本語の意味

定住する行為（住居を定める行為） / 定住状態（居住状態） / 新たに入植された地域、入植地、または植民地

After months of negotiation, the settlement finally ended the dispute between the neighbors.

数か月にわたる交渉の末、解決がついに隣人同士の争いを終わらせた。

意味（1）

The act of settling.

settlement of debt

意味（2）

The state of being settled.

意味（3）

A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled (even in past times).

意味（4）

A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city; a populated place.

意味（5）

(archeology) A site where people used to live together in ancient times; an ancient simple kind of village.

意味（6）

(architecture) The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.

意味（7）

(finance) The delivery of goods by the seller and payment for them by the buyer, under a previously agreed trade or transaction or contract entered into.

意味（8）

(law) A disposition of property, or the act of granting it.

意味（9）

(law) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence.

意味（10）

(law) A resolution of a dispute.

settlements （ plural ）