DISTRICT


Meaning of DISTRICT in English

I. district adjective

Etymology: Latin districtus, from past participle of distringere to hinder, molest — more at distrain

obsolete : rigorous , strict

II. dis·trict ˈdi(ˌ)strikt, -_strēkt noun

( -s )

Usage: often attributive

Etymology: French, from Middle French, from Medieval Latin districtus coercive action, justice, jurisdiction, area of jurisdiction, district, from districtus, past participle of distringere to compel — more at distrain

1. obsolete : the territory under a feudal lord's jurisdiction

2. : a territorial division (as of a nation, state, county, or city) marked off or defined for administrative, electoral, judicial, or other purposes: as

a. : an administrative unit established as a quasi-municipal corporation for the performance of a special governmental function or functions

park district

water supply district

fire protection district

a police district

a postal district

a district school

— see congressional district , drainage district , election district , magisterial district

b. : the most important administrative unit of a province or presidency in British India

c. : one of the subdivisions of the United States or of the individual states served by a particular federal or state court

d. : an ecclesiastical division of an English parish made under the Church Building Acts and having its own church and pastor

e. : an urban or rural subdivision of a British administrative county constituted by the Local Government Act of 1894 and having an urban or rural district council

f. : an area usually comprising several subordinate territories that is demarcated by a commercial firm for convenience of sales promotion, assignment to sales representatives, or distribution

a district sales manager

a district representative

3. : an area, region, or tract or a portion of one of these usually marked by a distinguishing quality, set of characteristics, devotion to a distinguishing purpose, or habitation by a more or less homogeneous group

a barren district

a wooded district

a shopping district

a residential district

the Italian district

4. : a subdivision of an embryonic field determined for the production of a specific definitive structure

III. district transitive verb

( -ed/-ing/-s )

: to divide or organize into districts

attending to a new districting of the city

the area was districted according to population figures only

interlocking problems of zoning and school districting — Merrill Folsom

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.