Definition of "settlement"

The act of settling.  examples

The state of being settled.  examples

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

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

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

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

(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.  examples

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

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

(law) A resolution of a dispute.  examples

(law) A mutual agreement to end a dispute without resorting to legal proceedings, also known as an out-of-court settlement or settling out of court.  quotations  examples

(India, historical) An estate or district in Anglo-Indian Bengal where, instead of taking a quota of the year's produce, the government took a fixed sum several times a year from the local cultivators.