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District Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of District? [n] a region marked off for administrative or other purposes [adj] applicable to or serving the needs of a particular district; "the district courts" [v] regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns Synonyms \| Synonyms for District: local \| territory \| zone Related Terms \| Find terms related to District: abode \| airspace \| apportion \| archbishopric \| archdiocese \| area \| arrondissement \| bailiwick \| bearings \| belt \| bench mark \| bishopric \| borough \| canton \| city \| commune \| community \| confines \| congressional district \| constablewick \| continental shelf \| corridor \| country \| county \| cut up \| departement \| department \| diocese \| divide \| divide up \| division \| divvy \| divvy up \| duchy \| electoral district \| electorate \| emplacement \| environs \| government \| ground \| hamlet \| heartland \| hinterland \| hole \| hundred \| Kreis \| land \| latitude and longitude \| lieu \| locale \| locality \| location \| locus \| magistracy \| metropolis \| metropolitan area \| milieu \| neighborhood \| oblast \| offshore rights \| okrug \| parcel \| parcel out \| parish \| part \| partition \| parts \| pinpoint \| place \| placement \| point \| portion \| position \| precinct \| precincts \| premises \| principality \| province \| purlieus \| quarter \| region \| riding \| salient \| section \| sector \| segment \| sheriffalty \| sheriffwick \| shire \| shrievalty \| site \| situation \| situs \| soil \| soke \| space \| split \| split up \| spot \| stake \| state \| stead \| subdivide \| terrain \| territory \| three-mile limit \| town \| township \| twelve-mile limit \| vicinage \| vicinity \| village \| wapentake \| ward \| whereabout \| whereabouts \| zone See Also \| Acadia \| Acre \| administrative district \| administrative division \| American Samoa \| Aragon \| AS \| associated state \| Athos \| Attica \| Boeotia \| border district \| borderland \| Castile \| Castilla \| Catalonia \| city district \| community \| congressional district \| development \| East Malaysia \| Eastern Samoa \| enclave \| Galloway \| goldfield \| govern \| jurisdiction \| Kordofan \| Lake District \| Lakeland \| Lothian Region \| Louisiana Purchase \| march \| marchland \| Mount Athos \| Natal \| North Borneo \| Northern Territory \| Northwest Territories \| order \| Palatinate \| Pfalz \| protectorate \| region \| regularize \| regulate \| residential area \| residential district \| Sabah \| Sarawak \| territorial division \| West Malaysia \| Yukon \| Yukon Territory District In Webster's Dictionary \Dis"trict\, a. [L. districtus, p. p.] Rigorous; stringent; harsh. [Obs.] Punishing with the rod of district severity. --Foxe. \Dis"trict\, n. [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. {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.] Syn: Division; circuit; quarter; province; tract; region; country. \Dis"trict\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Districted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Districting}.] To divide into districts or limited portions of territory; as, legislatures district States for the choice of representatives.

District Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of District?

[n] a region marked off for administrative or other purposes
[adj] applicable to or serving the needs of a particular district; "the district courts"
[v] regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns

Synonyms | Synonyms for District: local | territory | zone

District In Webster's Dictionary

\Dis"trict\, a. [L. districtus, p. p.]
Rigorous; stringent; harsh. [Obs.]

      Punishing with the rod of district severity. --Foxe.


\Dis"trict\, n. [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.

{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.]

Syn: Division; circuit; quarter; province; tract; region;
     country.


\Dis"trict\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Districted}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Districting}.]
To divide into districts or limited portions of territory;
as, legislatures district States for the choice of
representatives.

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