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district

Syllables: dis·trict/ˈdɪstɹɪkt/

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nonstandard/ˈdiːstɹɪkt/

district noun: an administrative division of an area.

Noun

district (plural districts)

  1. An administrative division of an area.
    • Soho is a district of London
    • ‘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.[…]’1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
  2. An area or region marked by some distinguishing feature.
    • the Lake District in Cumbria
  3. (UK) An administrative division of a county without the status of a borough.
    • South Oxfordshire District Council
  4. A specific, usually named area of the coalface where particular seams are worked.

Verb

district (third-person singular simple present districts, present participle districting, simple past and past participle districted)

  1. (transitive) To divide into administrative or other districts.
    • A county districted for voting purposes.

Adjective

district (comparative more district, superlative most district)

  1. (obsolete) rigorous; stringent; harsh
    • punishing with the rod of district severity1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC

Proper noun capitalized: District

the District

  1. (informal) The District of Columbia, the federal district of the United States.
  2. (mostly local usage) Any of numerous governmental districts.
  3. The District Line of the London Underground, originally known as the District Railway.
    • 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.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 60

district meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

district in Hindi

administrative division
संभाग sambhāg, ज़िला zilā, जिला jilā, जनपद janpad, डिस्ट्रिक्ट ḍisṭrikṭ

district in Tamil

administrative division
மாவட்டம் māvaṭṭam

district in Marathi

administrative division
जिल्हा jilhā

district in Urdu

administrative division
ضِلَع zila'
area or region
عِلاقَہ 'ilāqa
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district in Bengali
জেলা jela
district in Telugu
జిల్లా jillā
district in Malayalam
ജില്ല jilla
district in Kannada
ಕಂಪಣ, ಜಿಲ್ಲಾ, ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ, ಜಿಲ್ಹೆ
district in Punjabi
ਮੰਡਲ maṇḍal
district in Gujarati
જિલ્લો jillo
district in Odia
ଜିଲ୍ଲା, ଜିଲ୍ଲାର, ଜିଲ୍ଲାକୁ
district in Sanskrit
वाट vāṭa, पीठ pīṭha, मण्डल máṇḍala
district in Sinhala
මඩුල්ල maḍulla
district in Pashto
ایالت iyālát, ولسوالي wëlëswâli
district in Tagalog
distrito
district in Arabic
مُقَاطَعَة muqāṭaʕa, مُدِيرِيَّة mudīriyya, مِنْطَقَة minṭaqa
district in Malay
daerah
district in Indonesian
distrik
district in Thai
อำเภอ am-pəə, เขต kèet
district in Vietnamese
quận, quận hạt, địa hạt, hạt
district in Myanmar
ခရိုင် hka.ruing
Dzongkha
རྫོང་ཁག rdzong khag

Examples of district in a sentence

  • You can really feel the pulse of the city in this district.
  • After the city's incorporation into the capital district, the population rose.
  • There are four secondaries in this district, each with several thousand pupils.

All 40 example sentences with district

Forms of district

Noun
pluraldistricts
Verb
third-person singular presentdistricts
present participledistricting
past participledistricted
pastdistricted
Adjective
comparativemore district
superlativemost district

Plural of district: districts

Origin of district

From French district, from Medieval Latin districtus (“a district within which the lord may distrain, also jurisdiction”), from Latin districtus, past participle of distringere (“to draw asunder, compel, distrain”), from dis- (“apart”) + stringere (“to draw tight, strain”). Doublet of Detroit.

Words formed from district

Phrases with district

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Words that rhyme with district

Questions about district

What does district mean?
District means an administrative division of an area.
What is district in Hindi?
District in Hindi is संभाग (sambhāg), ज़िला (zilā), जिला (jilā). See District meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is district?
District can be a noun, a verb, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce district?
District is pronounced /ˈdɪstɹɪkt/.
What is the plural of district?
The plural of district is districts.

Words near district in the dictionary

  1. distributorships
  2. distributour
  3. distributours
  4. distributress
  5. distributresses
  6. district
  7. District 1
  8. district attorney
  9. district attorneys
  10. district cooling
  11. district heating

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: district (page history and authors); District (page history and authors); district (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਮੰਡਲ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); જિલ્લો (Gujarati) (page history and authors); district (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); पीठ (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); මඩුල්ල (Sinhala) (page history and authors); ایالت (Pashto) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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