| sett | (noun) rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads | Synonyms: cobble, cobblestone |
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| settee | (noun) a small sofa | - |
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| (noun) a long wooden bench with a back | Synonyms: settle |
| setter | (noun) a long-haired dog formerly trained to crouch on finding game but now to point | - |
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| (noun) one who sets written material into type | Synonyms: compositor, typesetter, typographer |
| setterwort | (noun) digitate-leaved hellebore with an offensive odor and irritant qualities when taken internally | Synonyms: bear's foot, Helleborus foetidus, stinking hellebore |
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| setting | (noun) a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place | Synonyms: mount |
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| (noun) arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted | Synonyms: mise en scene, stage setting |
| (noun) a table service for one person | Synonyms: place setting |
| (noun) the context and environment in which something is set | Synonyms: scene |
| (noun) the physical position of something | - |
| (noun) the state of the environment in which a situation exists | Synonyms: background, scope |
| (noun) the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event | Synonyms: circumstance, context |
| settle | (noun) a long wooden bench with a back | Synonyms: settee |
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| (verb) take up residence and become established | Synonyms: locate |
| (verb) form a community | - |
| (verb) become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style | Synonyms: root, settle down, steady down, take root |
| (verb) establish or develop as a residence | - |
| (verb) make final; put the last touches on; put into final form | Synonyms: finalise, finalize, nail down |
| (verb) become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet | - |
| (verb) come as if by falling | Synonyms: descend, fall |
| (verb) bring to an end; settle conclusively | Synonyms: adjudicate, decide, resolve |
| (verb) settle conclusively; come to terms | Synonyms: determine, square off, square up |
| (verb) end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement | - |
| (verb) come to terms | Synonyms: conciliate, make up, patch up, reconcile |
| (verb) accept despite lack of complete satisfaction | - |
| (verb) get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury | Synonyms: get back |
| (verb) fix firmly | Synonyms: ensconce |
| (verb) arrange or fix in the desired order | - |
| (verb) come to rest | - |
| (verb) settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground | Synonyms: settle down |
| (verb) cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids) | - |
| (verb) sink down or precipitate | Synonyms: subside |
| (verb) go under | Synonyms: go down, go under, sink |
| (verb) become clear by the sinking of particles | - |
| (verb) dispose of; make a financial settlement | - |
| settled | (adjective) established in a desired position or place; not moving about | - |
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| (adjective) established or decided beyond dispute or doubt | - |
| (adjective) not changeable | - |
| (adjective) inhabited by colonists | Synonyms: colonised, colonized |
| settledness | (noun) The quality or state of being fixed, permanent or stationary; established. | - |
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| settlement | (noun) termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities | Synonyms: liquidation |
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| (noun) the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies | Synonyms: colonisation, colonization |
| (noun) something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making | Synonyms: closure, resolution |
| (noun) a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it | - |
| (noun) a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government | Synonyms: colony |
| (noun) a community of people smaller than a town | Synonyms: small town, village |
| (noun) an area where a group of families live together | - |
| settler | (noun) a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country | Synonyms: colonist |
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| (noun) a clerk in a betting shop who calculates the winnings | - |
| (noun) a negotiator who settles disputes | - |
| settling | (noun) a gradual sinking to a lower level | Synonyms: subsidence, subsiding |
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| settlings | (noun) sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid | Synonyms: dregs |
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| settlor | (noun) (law) a person who creates a trust by giving real or personal property in trust to a trustee for the benefit of a beneficiary; a person who gives such property is said to settle it on the trustee | Synonyms: trustor |
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