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district Definition

dis·trict (dis′trikt)

noun

  1. a geographical or political division made for a specific purpose a school district
  2. any region; part of a country, city, etc. the business district

Etymology: Fr < ML districtus, orig., control; hence in feudal law, a territory within which a lord had jurisdiction < L: see distress

transitive verb

to divide into districts

district Synonyms

district

modif.

divisional, immediate, ward, provincial, restricted, limited, community, rural, territorial, inferior, superior, higher, lower, state, federal, county; see also local 1.

district Synonyms

district

n.

region, quarter, community, vicinity; see area 2, division 5, neighborhood.

district Law Definition

n

A geographical subdivision of a county, municipality, or similar entity, for political, judicial, or administrative ends; for example, a court district (in which a particular court has jurisdiction over certain matters arising within the borders or pertaining to people who live there) or a voting district (where all the franchised inhabitants are required to vote at a particular polling station).

district Usage Examples

Possessives

coroner: Consequential changes are made to parishes, local government electoral areas, petty sessional divisions and coroners ' districts.

Converse of object

  • surround: The town also has a good bus service to lots of surrounding districts.
  • populate: It also covers one of the largest most sparsely populated districts in England.
  • deprive: The fund provides extra resources for 88 of the most deprived local authority districts.

Adjective modifier

  • metropolitan: Knowsley Metropolitan Boro is one of Merseyside's five metropolitan districts.
  • rural: In later years the company walked, and " walking weddings " are general now in some of the rural districts.
  • postal: The sample came from 107 of 120 postal districts in Britain.
  • ecclesiastical: Part of the parish was assigned to the ecclesiastical district of Lyonsdown in 1869.

Modifies a noun

  • council: The district council will spend £ 500,000 on the scheme over the next three years.
  • nurse: Enquire about the help of a district nurse through your GP or health clinic.
  • judge: Indeed in relation to the order of the district judge we have not even seen her judgment.
  • nursing: A nurse was recruited from the district nursing team by the practice.
  • councilor: Colin served as a district councilor and as a Justice of the Peace for Essex and a General Commissioner for Inland Revenue.
  • heating: Warm aquifers Warm aquifer geothermal energy is particularly suitable for district heating schemes due to the localized nature of the phenomenon.

Noun used with modifier

  • enumeration: Beware: the same enumeration district number can occasionally be repeated within a single piece.
  • red-light: The red-light district is full of shady characters loitering on street corners.
  • mining: These were monographs on particular mines or mining districts.
  • lake: Almost in the center of the Italian lake district.
  • shire: The bill in Fenland is £ 60 lower than the average English bill and more than £ 130 lower than the shire district average.
  • polling: Compilation and publishing of a list for all voters for the Council area by designated polling districts.