Definition of free settler in English:

free settler

noun

Australian historical

An early settler who was not a convict.
the settlements were populated in part by convicts and in part by free settlers
Example sentencesExamples
- The arrival of free settlers in ever-increasing numbers from the 1820s led to the development of a contested vocabulary.
- Most of the early free settlers were Anglo-Jewish, middle-class immigrants who transposed the English pattern of Jewish practice to Australia.
- The issue arose whether the Courts of Quarter Sessions were obliged to sit with juries for the trial of free settlers.
- We do hear of convicts trying to get rations from the free settlers.
- The convicts had painted such an exciting portrait of life in The Fair Isle of Oz that the first free settlers began rocking up.
- The settlements were populated in part by convicts and the attendant military forces, in part by free settlers.
- God's Police were the good and virtuous women who came later when Australian society had developed to the point where it could attract free settlers.
- The officers and wealthy free settlers were anxious to organise their own entertainments.
- South Australia was the only Australian colony to be founded by free settlers.
- An alternative was to attract free settlers who would make the island a base for British trade to South America.

单词	free settler
释义	Definition of free settler in English: free settler noun Australian historical An early settler who was not a convict. the settlements were populated in part by convicts and in part by free settlers Example sentencesExamples The arrival of free settlers in ever-increasing numbers from the 1820s led to the development of a contested vocabulary. Most of the early free settlers were Anglo-Jewish, middle-class immigrants who transposed the English pattern of Jewish practice to Australia. The issue arose whether the Courts of Quarter Sessions were obliged to sit with juries for the trial of free settlers. We do hear of convicts trying to get rations from the free settlers. The convicts had painted such an exciting portrait of life in The Fair Isle of Oz that the first free settlers began rocking up. The settlements were populated in part by convicts and the attendant military forces, in part by free settlers. God's Police were the good and virtuous women who came later when Australian society had developed to the point where it could attract free settlers. The officers and wealthy free settlers were anxious to organise their own entertainments. South Australia was the only Australian colony to be founded by free settlers. An alternative was to attract free settlers who would make the island a base for British trade to South America.
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