Meaning of district | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An administrative division of an area
2. An administrative division of an area.
3. The District of Columbia, the federal district of the United States.
   informal
4. An area or region marked by some distinguishing feature
5. An area or region marked by some distinguishing feature.
6. To mark off or divide into districts.
7. Any of numerous governmental districts.
8. An administrative division of a county without the status of a borough
9. an area of a country, town etc. He lives in a poor district of London; Public transport is often infrequent in country districts. buurt, omgewing, wyk مَنْطِقَه област distrito čtvrť, oblast, kraj der Distrikt distrikt; område περιοχή, διοικητική περιφέρεια distrito piirkond ناحیه؛ بخش alue région, quartierמחוז जिला, मंडल okrug kerület distrik hverfi; hérað distretto, regione, quartiere 地区 지구, 지역 rajonas rajons; apgabals daerah streek, wijkområde, landsdel, bydel, distriktrejon, okolica سيمه،...
   etc
10. An administrative division of a county without the status of a borough.
    UK
11. The District Line of the London Underground, originally known as the District Railway.
12. A specific, usually named area of the coalface where particular seams are worked
13. A division of an area, as for administrative purposes.
14. A specific, usually named area of the coalface where particular seams are worked.
15. To divide into administrative or other districts
16. A region or locality marked by a distinguishing feature: went to the lake district for their vacation.
17. an area of land marked off for administrative or other purposes
18. (Physical Geography) a locality separated by geographical attributes; region
19. any subdivision of any territory, region, etc
20. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (in England from 1974 and in Wales 1974–96) any of the subdivisions of the nonmetropolitan counties that elects a council responsible for local planning, housing, rates, etc. See also metropolitan district
21. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (in Scotland until 1975) a landward division of a county
22. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (in Scotland 1975–96) any of the subdivisions of the regions that elected a council responsible for environmental health services, housing, etc

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Examples

“‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘An Alsatia like the ancient one behind the Strand, or the Saffron Hill before the First World War.[…]’”

“the Soho district of London”

“the Lake District in Cumbria”

“South Oxfordshire District Council”

“The District seems complacently salubrious. It is green on the Tube map, an inoffensive colour. It has not one but two bridge crossings of the Thames, which seems greedy when you think that no other [underground] line has even one.”

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