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US
/ˈsɛtəɫd/
]
[ UK /sˈɛtəld/ ]
[ UK /sˈɛtəld/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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established in a desired position or place; not moving about
nomads...absorbed among the settled people
settled areas
I don't feel entirely settled here
the advent of settled civilization -
established or decided beyond dispute or doubt
with details of the wedding settled she could now sleep at night -
not changeable
a period of settled weather - inhabited by colonists
How To Use settled In A Sentence
- The resettlement fee shall be calculated according to the number of agricultural population to be resettled.
- Sometime in the early eighteen hundreds, they trekked to the flat plain between the Ohio River and Lake Erie and settled in Mount Vernon, which was then a few small buildings in a forest of tall trees. A Renegade History of the United States
- I set the alarm clock for a quarter to midnight, and settled down for a couple of hours sleep.
- I set the alarm clock for a quarter to midnight, and settled down for a couple of hours sleep.
- He discussions certain sparsely settled areas (the Highlands of Scotland, for example) as requiring less division of labor than more densely settled areas, and argues that this will slow down the development of manufacture, which makes a great deal of sense. A Bland and Deadly Courtesy
- An hour later, a broomstick settled gently on the lawn.
- The pet shop clerk had been helpful, showing him an assortment of mice and guinea pigs and even a pair of canaries, but in the end, Enoch had settled on the brown-and-white hamster.
- There followed seventeen years of sectarian vagabondage: founded in 1830, the sect settled in Kirtland, Ohio, Jackson, Missouri, and Nauvoo, Illinois, reaching Great Salt Lake Valley, Utah, in 1847.
- It was settled when incoming workers agreed to work permanent night shifts.
- His quiet voice was commanding and proved effective as the pair settled down.