Definition of district

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District (v. t.) To divide into districts or limited portions of territory; as, legislatures district States for the choice of representatives..

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Cantref :: Cantref (n.) A district comprising a hundred villages, as in Wales..
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..
Region :: Region (n.) One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefinite extent; country; province; district; tract..
Zillah :: Zillah (n.) A district or local division, as of a province..
Arcadia :: Arcadia (n.) A mountainous and picturesque district of Greece, in the heart of the Peloponnesus, whose people were distinguished for contentment and rural happiness..
District :: 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..
Backsettler :: Backsettler (n.) One living in the back or outlying districts of a community.
Commune :: Commune (n.) A small territorial district in France under the government of a mayor and municipal council; also, the inhabitants, or the government, of such a district. See Arrondissement..
Wool-hall :: Wool-hall (n.) A trade market in the woolen districts.
Collectorate :: Collectorate (n.) The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship.
Quarter :: Quarter (v. t.) A division of a town, city, or county; a particular district; a locality; as, the Latin quarter in Paris..
Ballot :: Ballot (n.) The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district..
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..
Adventitious :: Adventitious (a.) Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.
Water-white :: Water-white (n.) A vinelike plant (Vitis Caribaea) growing in parched districts in the West Indies, and containing a great amount of sap which is sometimes used for quenching thirst..
Conference :: Conference (n.) A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are.
Archdeaconry :: Archdeaconry (n.) The district, office, or residence of an archdeacon. See Benefice..
Soken :: Soken (n.) A district held by socage.
Border :: Border (n.) A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.
Federal :: Federal (a.) Composed of states or districts which retain only a subordinate and limited sovereignty, as the Union of the United States, or the Sonderbund of Switzerland..
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