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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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... nothing remarkable occurred, save that the outgoing mail carried a number of British who had booked their passages at the last moment. Officers on leave were recalled, a few big business houses were closed and, in the District, many German mills and a large influx of stalwart young employes, who had been working in them and could not speak a word of English, suddenly flocked in, prepared to embark for Europe, ...
— The Road to Mandalay - A Tale of Burma • B. M. Croker
... flat, largely of a swampy nature, covered mostly with a thick growth of saplings, ferns and bushes. Here and there were also to be found some trees of fairly good size. It was in the east but a few miles removed from the great metropolitan district of New York and Philadelphia. There could still be found many square miles of unimproved land. It was surprising also to find excellent highways running throughout this semi-wilderness, between almost impenetrable walls of green, which though beautiful, produced a feeling of ...
— See America First • Orville O. Hiestand
... nervous disorders, rheumatism, and asthma. They are of an exquisite light-blue colour, and when bathing in them one's limbs have the appearance of marble. That the Schlangenbad people think highly of their "cure" is obvious. I bought a map of the district (manufactured in the place) and found the word Schlangenbad printed in huge letters, while the neighbouring town of Wiesbaden was in such small ones that it looked as if ...
— A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes • Harriet Julia Jephson
... begin) 'is to be regarded in all respects as an integral part of the Royal Navy, and in future the various air stations will be under the general orders of the Commander-in-Chief or Senior Naval Officers in whose district they ...
— The War in the Air; Vol. 1 - The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force • Walter Raleigh
... Wilson. Had this artist studied under favorable circumstances, there is evidence of his having possessed power enough to produce an original picture; but, corrupted by study of the Poussins, and gathering his materials chiefly in their field, the district about Rome—a district especially unfavorable, as exhibiting no pure or healthy nature, but a diseased and overgrown Flora among half-developed volcanic rocks, loose calcareous concretions, and mouldering wrecks of buildings—and whose spirit, ...
— Modern Painters Volume I (of V) • John Ruskin


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