Definitions for settled
set·tled

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1. settled(adj)

   established or decided beyond dispute or doubt

   "with details of the wedding settled she could now sleep at night"

2. settled(adj)

   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"

3. colonized, colonised, settled(adj)

   inhabited by colonists

4. settled(adj)

   not changeable

   "a period of settled weather"

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1. settled(Adjective)

   Comfortable and at ease, especially after a period of change or unrest.

   It took me a while to feel settled after I moved to this big city.

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1. Settled

   of Settle

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'settled' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2618

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'settled' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3677

How to pronounce settled?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of settled in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of settled in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of settled in a Sentence

1. Alfred North Whitehead:

   It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count. - from Science and the Modern World

2. F. F. Bosworth:

   It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

3. Susan Collins:

   We have no idea whether or not there are tapes but if there are tapes then they should be turned over, that issue was settled many years ago when the Supreme Court ruled in 1974 that the tapes that President (Richard) Nixon had should be turned over to Congress.

4. Martin Schilling:

   Over the next one and a half years or so, another 50 billion to 100 billion francs could follow, then the situation should largely be settled.

5. Lewis Lapham:

   The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.

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