settlementation
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Settlement, especially in an area that has no official incorporation or legal claim made on it.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "John White led one of the first settlementations."
- "The first changes in the landscape are manifested by the cultivation of vegetables, the establishment of vineyards, afforestation and the settlementation of the nomads, as well as by the industrial installations in the capital and, still more so, by those in the countryside where they give the effect of being foreign bodies."
- "There were relatively few, but large and widely scattered villages (rural towns) and in the space between a scattered settlementation of dry-stone shelters and masserie."
- "During the initial stages of settlementation, the availability of government housing could not keep up with the demands of a growing population."
- "Entire settlementation at risk due to unequal and unpredictable time limit for land subsidence."
- "On the other hand, it is necessary to have a highly structured vegetation on shore and good attainable feeding grounds near the waters. These are the suppositions of settlementation of waters by geese."
Etymology
From settlement + -ation.