district
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Noun (1)districts
- a region marked off for administrative or other purposesSynonyms: territoryterritorial dominiondominionType of regionKinds development, protectorate, jurisdiction, enclave, residential district, city district, borderland, possession, trust territory, British West Africa +6 moreExamples Attica, Athos, East Malaysia, Catalonia, Acadia, Kurdufan, American Samoa, Lake District, Palatinate, Natal +14 more
Verb (1)districts, districted, districting
- regulate housing in; of certain areas of townsSynonyms: zoneMore general regulate, regularize
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Translations
Noun administrative division
- Spanish
- distrito
- French
- district
- German
- Bezirk
- Italian
- distretto
- Portuguese
- distrito
- Turkish
- ilçe
- Russian
- райо́н rajón
- Arabic
- مُقَاطَعَة muqāṭaʕa
- Japanese
- 区 ku
- Dutch
- district
25 more languages
- Polish
- dzielnica
- Swedish
- distrikt
- Greek
- περιφέρεια periféria
- Korean
- 지구 jigu
- Indonesian
- distrik
- Vietnamese
- quận
- Hungarian
- kerület
- Portuguese (PT)
- distrito
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 區 qū
- Albanian
- rreth
- Catalan
- districte
- Czech
- okres
- Danish
- distrikt
- Esperanto
- distrikto
- Estonian
- rajoon
- Finnish
- alue
- Georgian
- რაიონი raioni
- Hebrew
- מָחוֹז makhóz
- Lithuanian
- rajonas
- Norwegian
- distrikt
- Romanian
- district
- Scottish Gaelic
- sgìre
- Serbo-Croatian
- oblast
- Slovak
- okres
- Yiddish
- שטח shetekh
Noun area or region
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. districtus, p. p.
Rigorous; stringent; harsh. obsolete
Punishing with the rod of district severity.— or Fox, John Foxe
Origin: LL. districtus district, fr. L. districtus, p. p. of distringere: cf. F. district. See Distrain.
1. Feudal Law The territory within which the lord has the power of coercing and punishing.
2. A division of territory; a defined portion of a state, town, or city, etc., made for administrative, electoral, or other purposes; as, a congressional district, judicial district, land district, school district, etc.
To exercise exclusive legislation... over such district not exceeding ten miles square.— The Constitution of the United States.
3. Any portion of territory of undefined extent; a region; a country; a tract.
These districts which between the tropics lie.— Blackstone, Sir William
Congressional district. See under Congressional. — District attorney, the prosecuting officer of a district or district court. — District court, a subordinate municipal, state, or United States tribunal, having jurisdiction in certain cases within a judicial district. — District judge, one who presides over a district court. — District school, a public school for the children within a school district. U.S.
Synonyms: Division; circuit; quarter; province; tract; region; country.
To divide into districts or limited portions of territory; as, legislatures district States for the choice of representatives.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54