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DISTRICT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A region marked off for administrative or other purposes
Synonyms:
district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
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"):
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)
goldfield (a district where gold is mined)
administrative district; administrative division; territorial division (a district defined for administrative purposes)
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)
community; residential area; residential district (a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences)
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)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns
Synonyms:
district; zone
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
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:
It was late in autumn when I quitted the district where I had so long resided.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
We approached it by degrees, and got, in due time, to the inn in the Whitechapel district, for which we were bound.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
And now, sir, continued the doctor, since I now know there's such a fellow in my district, you may count I'll have an eye upon you day and night.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in Herefordshire.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Bangladesh-US team of scientists which carried out the study, based their findings on investigations of an outbreak of AES in May–June 2012 that killed 13 children aged 1–12 in Bangladesh’s Dinajpur district.
(Lychee deaths linked to pesticides, not the fruit, SciDev.Net)
One of these grand assemblies was held in my time, about three months before my departure, whither my master went as the representative of our district.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Frenchmen and Englishmen, Gascon and Provencal, Brabanter, Tardvenu, Scorcher, Flayer, and Free Companion, wandered and struggled over the whole of this accursed district.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A wild-type zebrafish line, the stock of which was obtained from an area east of Calcutta in a district called Nadia.
(Nadia Zebrafish, NCI Thesaurus)
The dismal quarter of Soho seen under these changing glimpses, with its muddy ways, and slatternly passengers, and its lamps, which had never been extinguished or had been kindled afresh to combat this mournful reinvasion of darkness, seemed, in the lawyer’s eyes, like a district of some city in a nightmare.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I find that the district he named is in the extreme east of the country, just on the borders of three states, Transylvania, Moldavia and Bukovina, in the midst of the Carpathian mountains; one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
