English Explanatory Dictionary

district

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An administrative division of an area.
  2. An area or region marked by some distinguishing feature.
  3. An administrative division of a county without the status of a borough.
  4. A specific, usually named area of the coalface where particular seams are worked.
verb
  1. To divide into administrative or other districts.
adj
  1. rigorous; stringent; harsh
name
  1. The District of Columbia, the federal district of the United States.
  2. Any of numerous governmental districts.
  3. The District Line of the London Underground, originally known as the District Railway.

Pronunciation

dĭs′trĭkt /ˈdɪstɹɪkt/ en-us-district.ogg dēs′trĭkt /ˈdiːstɹɪkt/

Word forms

district districts districting districted more district most district the District

Etymology

From French district, from Medieval Latin districtus (“a district within which the lord may distrain, also jurisdiction”), from Latin districtus, past participle of distringere (“to draw asunder, compel, distrain”), from dis- (“apart”) + stringere (“to draw tight, strain”). Doublet of Detroit.

Related words

districtual

Derived words

burned-over district business district Capital Regional District central business district congressional district district attorney district cooling district heating districthood District I District II District III District IV districtlike district manager district nurse District of Columbia District of Criminals district officer districtwide districtwise Doddington and District ecodistrict electoral district federal district financial district garment district gay district historic district interdistrict intradistrict Lake District Marbury and District Mickle Trafford and District microdistrict minidistrict multidistrict Northern District on the district out-district Peak District red-light district rural district rural sanitary district sanitary district school district settled district Shocklach Oviatt and District Stainland and District subdistrict Tattenhall and District urban district urban sanitary district Yeovilton and District redistrict

Translations

Abaza: район Afrikaans: distrik Aghul: район Albanian: rreth Albanian: rajon Southern Altai: аймак Arabic: مُقَاطَعَة Arabic: مُدِيرِيَّة Armenian: գավառ Avar: мухъ Azerbaijani: nahiyə Azerbaijani: rayon Bashkir: районы Belarusian: раён Belarusian: акру́га Bengali: জেলা Bulgarian: о́кръг Bulgarian: око́лия Burmese: ခရိုင် Buryat: аймаг Catalan: comarca Catalan: districte Chechen: кӏошт Chinese Mandarin: 區域 /区域 Chinese Mandarin: 區 /区 East Circassian: куей West Circassian: къедзыгъо Coptic: ⲕⲁϩ Coptic: ⲑⲱϣ Coptic: ⲛⲟⲙⲟⲥ Corsican: distrettu Czech: čtvrť Czech: okres Czech: kraj Danish: distrikt Dargwa: къатӏ Dutch: district Dzongkha: རྫོང་ཁག Egyptian: w-a:r:*t-rd-N23 Egyptian: N24:t*Z1 Erzya: буе Esperanto: distrikto Estonian: ringkond Estonian: rajoon Finnish: alue Finnish: piiri French: district Galician: distrito Georgian: უბანი Georgian: რაიონი Georgian: მხარე Georgian: ოლქი German: Bezirk German: Kreis German: Landkreis German: Stadtteil German: Stadtviertel German: Distrikt German: Stadtbezirk German: Londkrääs Bavarian German: Beziak Bavarian German: Landgreis Bavarian German: Kroas Swabian: Landchrais Greek: δήμος Hebrew: מָחוֹז
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