settlers
n. countablen. people who go to live in a new place or country where not many people from their own culture lived before. They usually plan to stay there permanently and build a new community.
n. people who migrate to an area and establish a permanent residence there, often in a region previously uninhabited by their own group or under colonial expansion.
The early settlers built small wooden houses near the river.
In the nineteenth century, thousands of settlers moved west across the plains in search of affordable farmland.
The arrival of European settlers had a profound and often devastating impact on the indigenous populations who had inhabited the territory for millennia.
Plural form of 'settler'; often used in historical contexts to describe colonial expansion.