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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Backsettler :: Backsettler (n.) One living in the back or outlying districts of a community.
Redistrict :: Redistrict (v. t.) To divide into new districts.
Constituency :: Constituency (n.) A body of constituents, as the body of citizens or voters in a representative district..
Township :: Township (n.) The district or territory of a town.
Argolic :: Argolic (a.) Pertaining to Argolis, a district in the Peloponnesus..
Glenlivet :: Glenlivet (n.) A kind of Scotch whisky, named from the district in which it was first made..
Border :: Border (n.) A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.
Cantref :: Cantref (n.) A district comprising a hundred villages, as in Wales..
District :: District (a.) Rigorous; stringent; harsh.
Commandery :: Commandery (n.) A district or a manor with lands and tenements appertaining thereto, under the control of a member of an order of knights who was called a commander; -- called also a preceptory..
Walk :: Walk (n.) The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk..
Drainage :: Drainage (n.) Area or district drained; as, the drainage of the Po, the Thames, etc..
Patrol :: Patrol (v. i.) Any perambulation of a particular line or district to guard it; also, the men thus guarding; as, a customs patrol; a fire patrol..
Selters Water :: Selters water () A mineral water from Sellers, in the district of Nassan, Germany, containing much free carbonic acid..
Commandery :: Commandery (n.) A district under the administration of a military commander or governor.
Franchise :: Franchise (a.) The district or jurisdiction to which a particular privilege extends; the limits of an immunity; hence, an asylum or sanctuary..
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..
Wapinschaw :: Wapinschaw (n.) An exhibition of arms. according to the rank of the individual, by all persons bearing arms; -- formerly made at certain seasons in each district..
Faubourg :: Faubourg (n.) A suburb of French city; also, a district now within a city, but formerly without its walls..
Draff :: Draff (n.) A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also, the body of men thus drafted..
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