DISTRICT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does district mean? 

• DISTRICT (noun)
  The noun DISTRICT has 1 sense:

1. a region marked off for administrative or other purposes

  Familiarity information: DISTRICT used as a noun is very rare.

• DISTRICT (verb)
  The verb DISTRICT has 1 sense:

1. regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns

  Familiarity information: DISTRICT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISTRICT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A region marked off for administrative or other purposes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory

Hypernyms ("district" is a kind of...):

region (a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "district"):

administrative district; administrative division; territorial division (a district defined for administrative purposes)

British West Africa (the former British territories of western Africa, including Nigeria, Cameroon, Gambia, Togo, Sierra Leone, and the Gold Coast)

British East Africa (the former British territories of eastern Africa, including Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, and Zanzibar)

trust territory; trusteeship (a dependent country; administered by another country under the supervision of the United Nations)

possession (a territory that is controlled by a ruling state)

associated state; protectorate (a state or territory partly controlled by (but not a possession of) a stronger state but autonomous in internal affairs; protectorates are established by treaty)

mandate; mandatory (a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves)

jurisdiction (in law; the territory within which power can be exercised)

community; residential area; residential district (a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences)

border district; borderland; march; marchland (district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area)

city district (a district of a town or city)

congressional district (a territorial division of a state; entitled to elect one member to the United States House of Representatives)

development (a district that has been developed to serve some purpose)

enclave (an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it)

palatinate (a territory under the jurisdiction of a count palatine)

goldfield (a district where gold is mined)

Instance hyponyms:

Louisiana Purchase (territory in the western United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million; extends from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada)

Kordofan (a mountainous province of central Sudan)

Darfur (an impoverished region of western Sudan)

Catalonia (a region of northeastern Spain)

Castile; Castilla (a region of central Spain; a former kingdom that comprised most of modern Spain and united with Aragon to form Spain in 1479)

Aragon (a region of northeastern Spain; a former kingdom that united with Castile in 1479 to form Spain (after the marriage of Ferdinand V and Isabella I))

American Samoa; AS; Eastern Samoa (a United States territory on the eastern part of the island of Samoa)

KwaZulu-Natal; Natal (a region of eastern South Africa on the Indian Ocean)

Malaya; Peninsular Malaysia; West Malaysia (the region of Malaysia on the Malay Peninsula; shares a land border with Thailand to the north)

East Malaysia (the part of Malaysia that is on the island of Borneo)

Lothian Region (a district in southeast central Scotland (south side of the Firth of Forth) and the location of Edinburgh)

Galloway (a district in southwestern Scotland)

Lake District; Lakeland (a popular tourist area in northwestern England including England's largest lake and highest mountain)

Acre (a territory of western Brazil bordering on Bolivia and Peru)

Northern Mariana Islands; Northern Marianas (a self-governing territory comprising all of the Mariana Islands except Guam)

Northern Territory (a territory in north central Australia)

Yukon; Yukon Territory (a territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s)

Nunavut (an Arctic territory in northern Canada created in 1999 and governed solely by the Inuit; includes the eastern part of what was the Northwest Territories and most of the islands of the Arctic Archipelago)

Northwest Territories (a large territory in northwestern Canada; part is now Nunavut)

Acadia (the French-speaking part of the Canadian Maritime Provinces)

Papal States (the temporal dominions belonging to the pope (especially in central Italy))

Boeotia (a district of ancient Greece to the northwest of Athens)

Attica (the territory of Athens in ancient Greece where the Ionic dialect was spoken)

Athos; Mount Athos (an autonomous area in northeastern Greece that is the site of several Greek Orthodox monasteries founded in the tenth century)

Palatinate; Pfalz (a territory in southwestern Germany formerly ruled by the counts palatine)

Derivation:

district (regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns)

• DISTRICT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

district; zone

Hypernyms (to "district" is one way to...):

govern; order; regularise; regularize; regulate (bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

district (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)

 Context examples 

A location known by a local name (e.g., neighborhood, place, or district).

(Locality, NCI Thesaurus)

The district is occupied entirely by the city of Washington.

(District of Columbia, NCI Thesaurus)

Since then I have of course had the Hurlstone estates to manage, and as I am member for my district as well, my life has been a busy one.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The filter prototype, tested in Al Haouz, a rural district about 40 kilometres from Marrakech, removed a large amount of waste such as solid particles, organic pollution, nitrogen and fertiliser residue.

(Soil-based filter bricks clean up water for Moroccan farmers, SciDev.Net)

We had heard of his presence in the district and had once or twice caught sight of his tall figure upon the moorland paths.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The research examined satellite data from the past 30 years to track land cover changes in the Chobe district, a 21,000-square-kilometer area that encompasses urban, rural, communally-managed and protected lands.

(Land cover change in Botswana savannas: Don't blame the elephants, National Science Foundation)

Between 1930 and 1990, the grazed area of the Kgalagadi district in the southern Kalahari increased from 5,019 square miles to 12,355 square miles, and the number of boreholes increased from eight in 1955 to more than 380 in 1990.

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)

The whole district was in sorrow and dismay because of them, and yet no one could do anything to stop this.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

So, although, as you say, there are many hundreds of statues in London, it is very probable that these three were the only ones in that district.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Well!" I exclaimed, using an expression of the district, "that caps the globe, however!"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)