'District' definitions:
Definition of 'district'
From: WordNet
noun
A region marked off for administrative or other purposes [syn: district, territory, territorial dominion, dominion]
verb
Regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns [syn: zone, district]
Definition of 'District'
From: GCIDE
- District \Dis"trict\, a. [L. districtus, p. p.] Rigorous; stringent; harsh. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Punishing with the rod of district severity. --Foxe. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'District'
From: GCIDE
- District \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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of '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 'district'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'District'
- Districted,
- Districting,
- Distriction,
- Districtly,
- Congressional District,
- District Heights,
- District attorney,
- District court,
- District judge,
- District of Columbia,
- District school,
- Putnam District,
- School district,
- administrative district,
- bathyal district,
- border district,
- business district,
- city district,
- district line,
- district manager,
- election district,
- federal district,
- lake district,
- residential district,
- tenement district,
- District Heights, MD,
- District of Columbia, DC,
- Putnam District, CT,
- red light district,
- Red-light district