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District   /dˈɪstrɪkt/   Listen
noun
District  n.  
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."
3.
Any portion of territory of undefined extent; a region; a country; a tract. "These districts which between the tropics lie."
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.)
Synonyms: Division; circuit; quarter; province; tract; region; country.


verb
District  v. t.  (past & past part. districted; pres. part. districting)  To divide into districts or limited portions of territory; as, legislatures district States for the choice of representatives.


adjective
District  adj.  Rigorous; stringent; harsh. (Obs.) "Punishing with the rod of district severity."





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"District" Quotes from Famous Books



... stenographers, and the repeated calls for domestic help and such. Domestic service she shrank from except as a last resort. And down near the bottom of the column she happened on an inquiry for a school-teacher, female preferred, in an out-of-the-way district in the ...
— North of Fifty-Three • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... the lowest tender for the work on the South Bridge. They could not disregard it; so they sought to lay every obstacle in his path; they enticed his workmen away from him and made it difficult for him to obtain materials. The district judge, who was in the conspiracy, demanded that the contract should be observed; so the "Great Power" had to work day and night with the few men left to him in order to complete the work in time. A finer bridge no one had ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo
... Ford, the former overman of the Dochart pit, bore the weight of sixty-five years well. Tall, robust, well-built, he would have been regarded as one of the most conspicuous men in the district which supplies so many fine fellows to the ...
— The Underground City • Jules Verne
... that would be a hundred times more effective if its hero and heroine were represented as living in Williamsburg, swelling at the spectacle of the lights spanning the East River, and longing for the fleshpots of the so-called "Tenderloin District" in New York. ...
— Chapters of Opera • Henry Edward Krehbiel
... or stone walls, and contained numerous caves and koppies in the hill-side and at the foot of the mountain which no force had ever been able to capture. It is said that in the time of the Zulu monarch Dingaan, a great impi of that king's having penetrated to this district, had delivered an assault upon the kraal then owned by a forefather of Wambe's, and been beaten back with the loss of more ...
— Maiwa's Revenge - The War of the Little Hand • H. Rider Haggard


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