district

noun

/ˈdɪstrɪkt/

1 an area of a country or town, especially one that has particular features

the City of London’s financial district

Every city has its central business district.

The house is in a historic district.

Milan's most fashionable shopping district

a poor district of the city

rural/urban districts

SEE ALSO red-light district

Collocations

adjective

verb + district

district + verb

district + noun

preposition

in a/​the district

within a/​the district

2 one of the areas that a country, town or state is divided into for purposes of organization, with official boundaries (= borders)

a tax/postal district

a village in the Darjeeling district

a district judge

the district health authority

Word Origin

early 17th cent. (denoting the territory under the jurisdiction of a feudal lord): from French, from medieval Latin districtus ‘(territory of) jurisdiction’, from Latin distringere ‘draw apart’.

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