Word info Synonyms Antonyms

settle in

Verb

Meaning

(idiomatic) To get comfortable or established, as in a new place.
I had just sat down in my favorite easy chair and settled in when the phone rang.
It took me several months to settle in after the move to New York.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see settle,‎ in.
the colonists settled in Montreal, she intended to settle in the practice of law

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

Antonyms

Examples

Aeneas had a year-long affair with the Carthaginian queen Dido (also known as Elissa), who proposed that the Trojans settle in her land and that she and Aeneas reign jointly over their peoples. Source: Internet

After immigrating to Israel right out of high school in the Bronx, Ben-Yosef was among the first Jews to settle in the Palestinian territories that Israel occupied in June 1967. Source: Internet

After four years, the Scandinavians therefore split up, some to settle in Northumbria and East Anglia, the remainder to try their luck again on the Continent. Source: Internet

After the Portuguese were allowed to permanently settle in Macau, both Chinese and Portuguese merchants flocked to Macau, although the Portuguese were never numerous (numbering just 900 in 1583 and 1200 out of 26,000 in 1640). Source: Internet

After the People’s Liberation Army swept through in 1949, China’s new Communist rulers ordered thousands of soldiers to settle in Xinjiang, pushing the Han population from 6.7 percent that year to more than 40 percent by 1980. Source: Internet

Ahmad Zarruq was one of the most famous Islamic scholars to settle in Libya, and did so during this time. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms