From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
District \Dis"trict\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
District \Dis"trict\, adjective [L. districtus, p. p.] Rigorous; stringent; harsh. [Obs.]
Punishing with the rod of district severity. --Foxe.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
District \Dis"trict\, noun [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a region marked off for administrative or other purposes [syn: {territory}, {territorial dominion}, {dominion}]
verb
1: regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns [syn: {zone}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
117 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, zone
Define.com is a registered nonprofit corporation dedicated solely to the global public interest and the advancement of humanity. It belongs to all of us who have a desire to promote electronic democracy, science, creativity, imagination, reason, critical thinking, peace, race and gender equality, civil rights, equal access to education, personal liberty, free speech, animal rights, compassionate and nonviolent parenting, social and economic justice, global monetary reform, Secular Humanism, cognitive liberty and a permanent cessation of The War on Drugs.
Let's see what we can do if we put our heads together.
0