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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

... bounded from Venetian territory by the district of Buthrotum. Selim, a better neighbour and an abler politician than his predecessors, sought to renew and preserve friendly commercial relations with the purveyors of the Magnificent Republic. This wise conduct, equally advantageous for ...

— Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... much credit for getting him," Gill admitted. "This here was the way of it. A kid had been lost from Lander's ranch—strayed away in the hills, y'understand. She was gone for forty-eight hours, and everybody in the district was on the hunt for her. Up there the mountains are full of pockets. Looked like they weren't going to git her. Soon it would be too late, even if they did find her. Besides, there are a heap of mountain lions up in that country. I tell ...

— The Highgrader • William MacLeod Raine

... Marriage. (Am. Anthro. Soc. Printed for private circulation.) The Aborigines of the District of Columbia and the Lower Potomac. The ...

— The Truth About Woman • C. Gasquoine Hartley

... little stir afoot. For the McDonnells' scouts had come in with a man of the English garrison whom they had found foraging for meat; while, almost at the same moment, a herdsman from Ramore (which was a district westward of us), had come to tell us news of ...

— Sir Ludar - A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess • Talbot Baines Reed

... their books and paid heavily for them. Even Mr. Ruskin, in his retirement on the shores of Coniston, cannot carry on that graceful and ineffably instructive correspondence which was so easy to Southey, Coleridge, and the others of that fine company who dwelt in the Lake District. Marvellous it is to observe the splendid quality of the literary criticisms which were sent to the great ones by men who had no intention of writing or selling a line. In studying the memoirs of the century ...

— Side Lights • James Runciman

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