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District Definition And Meaning |
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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. |
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