Definition of district

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District (n.) 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..

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Commandery :: Commandery (n.) A district under the administration of a military commander or governor.
Demarch :: Demarch (n.) A chief or ruler of a deme or district in Greece.
District :: District (a.) Rigorous; stringent; harsh.
Stump :: Stump (v. t.) To travel over, delivering speeches for electioneering purposes; as, to stump a State, or a district. See To go on the stump, under Stump, n..
Dominion :: Dominion (n.) That which is governed; territory over which authority is exercised; the tract, district, or county, considered as subject; as, the dominions of a king. Also used figuratively; as, the dominion of the passions..
Adventitious :: Adventitious (a.) Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.
Police :: Police (n.) A judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town, or borough..
Captainry :: Captainry (n.) Power, or command, over a certain district; chieftainship..
Malacca :: Malacca (n.) A town and district upon the seacoast of the Malay Peninsula.
Limitation :: Limitation (v. t.) A certain precinct within which friars were allowed to beg, or exercise their functions; also, the time during which they were permitted to exercise their functions in such a district..
Province :: Province (n.) A region of country; a tract; a district.
Sircar :: Sircar (n.) A district or province; a circar.
Sanjak :: Sanjak (n.) A district or a subvision of a vilayet.
Aguish :: Aguish (a.) Productive of, or affected by, ague; as, the aguish districts of England..
Chorography :: Chorography (n.) the mapping or description of a region or district.
Livonian :: Livonian (a.) Of or pertaining to Livonia, a district of Russia near the Baltic Sea..
Territorial :: Territorial (a.) Limited to a certain district; as, right may be personal or territorial..
Jaghir :: "Jaghir (n.) A village or district the government and revenues of which are assigned to some person, usually in consideration of some service to be rendered, esp. the maintenance of troops..
Soken :: Soken (n.) A district held by socage.
Constituency :: Constituency (n.) A body of constituents, as the body of citizens or voters in a representative district..
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