'Congressional District' definitions:
Definition of 'congressional district'
From: WordNet
noun
A territorial division of a state; entitled to elect one member to the United States House of Representatives
Definition of 'Congressional District'
From: GCIDE
- Congressional \Con*gres"sion*al\, a. Of or pertaining to a congress, especially, to the Congress of the United States; as, congressional debates. [1913 Webster]
- Congressional and official labor. --E. Everett. [1913 Webster]
- Congressional District, one of the divisions into which a State is periodically divided (according to population), each of which is entitled to elect a Representative to the Congress of the United States. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Congressional district'
From: GCIDE
- District \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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- To exercise exclusive legislation . . . over such district not exceeding ten miles square. --The Constitution of the United States. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Any portion of territory of undefined extent; a region; a country; a tract. [1913 Webster]
- These districts which between the tropics lie. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'congressional district'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- archbishopric,
- archdiocese,
- arrondissement,
- bailiwick,
- bishopric,
- borough,
- canton,
- city,
- close borough,
- commune,
- constablewick,
- county,
- departement,
- diocese,
- district,
- duchy,
- election district,
- electoral district,
- electorate,
- gerrymander,
- gerrymandered district,
- government,
- hamlet,
- hundred,
- Kreis,
- magistracy,
- metropolis,
- metropolitan area,
- oblast,
- okrug,
- parish,
- pocket borough,
- precinct,
- principality,
- province,
- region,
- riding,
- rotten borough,
- safe district,
- sheriffalty,
- sheriffwick,
- shire,
- shrievalty,
- silk-stocking district,
- single-member district,
- soke,
- stake,
- state,
- swing district,
- territory,
- town,
- township,
- village,
- wapentake,
- ward