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district
| district attorney
| district line
| district manager
| district of columbia
| distrust
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun district has 1 sense
- district(n = noun.location) dominion, territorial dominion, territory - a region marked off for administrative or other purposes; Array has particulars: administrative district, administrative division, territorial division, border district, borderland, march, marchland, city district, congressional district, development, enclave, palatinate, community, residential area, residential district, goldfield, jurisdiction, mandate, mandatory, associated state, protectorate, possession, trust territory, trusteeship, british east africa, british west africa, palatinate, pfalz, athos, mount athos, attica, boeotia, papal states, acadia, northwest territories, nunavut, yukon, yukon territory, northern territory, northern mariana islands, northern marianas, acre, lake district, lakeland, galloway, lothian region, east malaysia, north borneo, sabah, sarawak, west malaysia, kwazulu-natal, natal, american samoa, as, eastern samoa, aragon, castile, castilla, catalonia, darfur, kordofan, louisiana purchase
is a kind of region
Derived form verb district1
Verb district has 1 sense
- district(v = verb.social) zone - regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns; Array is one way to govern, order, regularise, regularize, regulate
Derived form noun district1
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
district, n. & v.
--n.
1 a (often attrib.) a territory marked off for special administrative purposes. b Brit. a division of a county or region electing its own councillors.
2 an area which has common characteristics; a region (the wine-growing district).
--v.tr. US divide into districts.
--n.
1 a (often attrib.) a territory marked off for special administrative purposes. b Brit. a division of a county or region electing its own councillors.
2 an area which has common characteristics; a region (the wine-growing district).
--v.tr. US divide into districts.
Idiom
district attorney (in the US) the prosecuting officer of a district. district court (in the US) the Federal court of first instance. district heating a supply of heat or hot water from one source to a district or a group of buildings. district nurse Brit. a peripatetic nurse serving a rural or urban area. district visitor Brit. a person working for a member of the clergy in a section of a parish.
Etymology
F f. med.L districtus (territory of) jurisdiction (as DISTRAIN)
THESAURUS
district
Kreis, 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, 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, zoneROGET THESAURUS
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Region
N region, sphere, ground, soil, area, field, realm, hemisphere, quarter, district, beat, orb, circuit, circle, reservation, pale, compartment, department, clearing, (property) &c 780 (Government), 1 arena, precincts, enceinte, walk, march, patch, plot, parcel, inclosure, close, field, court, enclave, reserve, preserve, street, clime, climate, zone, meridian, latitude, biosphere, lithosphere, territorial, local, parochial, provincial, regional.
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