district
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
district/ˈdɪstrɪkt/
▶noun
- 1 an area of a town or country.
- 2 Brit. a division of a county or region that elects its own councillors.
– origin C17: from Fr., from med. L. districtus ‘(territory of) jurisdiction’, from L. distringere ‘draw apart’.
'district' also found in these Oxford entries:
Aeolian mode
- Airedale
- Akita
- archbishop
- archbishopric
- archdeaconry
- archdiocese
- Armagnac
- arrondissement
- bailiff
- bailiwick
- balas ruby
- barefoot doctor
- barrio
- Barsac
- Beaujolais
- bey
- Bordeaux
- borderland
- bush
- carry
- chapelry
- Chelsea boot
- Chinatown
- Circassian
- circuit
- collector
- command
- commander
- corn
- council
- DA
- daiquiri
- DC
- department
- diocese
- disafforest
- district attorney
- district court
- district nurse
- EC
- Edo
- electoral roll
- environs
- enzootic
- fine champagne
- galangal
- Gamay
- Gauleiter
