Definitions
1.NounThe act of settling."settlement of debt"
2.NounThe state of being settled."(Can we add an example for this sense?)"
3.NounA colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled.
4.NounA community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city; a populated place.
5.NounA site where people used to live together in ancient times; an ancient simple kind of village.
6.NounThe gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
7.NounThe delivery of goods by the seller and payment for them by the buyer, under a previously agreed trade or transaction or contract entered into.
8.NounA disposition of property, or the act of granting it.
9.NounA settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence.
10.NounA resolution of a dispute.
11.NounA mutual agreement to end a dispute without resorting to legal proceedings, also known as an out-of-court settlement or settling out of court.
12.NounAn 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.