Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
the district occupied entirely by the city of Washington;
chosen by George Washington as the site of the capital of the United States and created out of land ceded by Maryland and Virginia;
[syn: District of Columbia, D.C., DC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
District of Columbia
n 1: the district occupied entirely by the city of Washington;
chosen by George Washington as the site of the capital of
the United States and created out of land ceded by Maryland
and Virginia [syn: District of Columbia, D.C., DC]