settler

Compared meaning: a person who settles in a new place (noun).

比较义项：迁往新地定居的人（名词）。

• settler 本词

  Used generally for anyone who moves to and establishes a home in a new, often undeveloped or frontier area; carries no necessary link to a colonial or imperial power.

  泛指迁往新地（通常是尚未开发的边疆地区）安家的人，不一定与殖民统治有关。

  Early settlers cleared the forest and built farms along the frontier.

  早期的定居者们开垦森林，在边疆建起了农场。

• colonist

  Specifically a person who settles in a formal colony under the rule of a distant government; used mainly in historical or political contexts involving imperial control.

  特指定居在正式殖民地、受远方政府统治的人，主要用于涉及帝国统治的历史或政治语境。

  The colonists protested new taxes imposed by the king.

  殖民地居民抗议国王征收的新税。

Both words mean a person who moves to and settles in a new place. Settler is general, for anyone moving to an undeveloped area, with no link to colonial rule. Colonist means someone settling in a colony ruled by a distant government, in historical contexts.

二者都指移居新地并安家的人，但settler泛指迁往新开发或边疆地区安家的人，不一定涉及殖民统治关系；colonist则特指定居在正式殖民地、受宗主国统治的人，语气更正式，常见于殖民历史语境。