1 an official agreement that ends an argument; the act of reaching an agreement （结束纠纷的）协议；达成协议: a divorce settlement 离婚协议the settlement of a dispute 解决争端

2 a place that a group of people have built and live in, where few or no people lived before; the process of people starting to live in a place 拓居地；殖民地；拓居；殖民: There is believed to have been a prehistoric settlement on this site. 据认为这地方在史前有过一个居民点。the settlement of the American West 美国西部的开拓