Usually means: Administrative division within a region.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. district: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. district, the District: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. district: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. district: Collins English Dictionary
  5. District, district, district: Wordnik
  6. district: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. district: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. district, the district: Dictionary.com
  9. district: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. district: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. District (Austria), District (China), District (EP), District (LDS Church), District (Latter Day Saints), District (PRC), District (PRC and ROC), District (People's Republic of China), District (ROC), District (Republic of China), District (Taiwan), District (Vietnam), District (disambiguation), District, The District (TV series), The District (Tustin), The District (newspaper), The District, The District: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. District: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. district: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. district: Rhymezone
  15. district, district (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. district: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. district: Free Dictionary
  18. district: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. district: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  20. district: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. district: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  22. District, district: Wiktionary
  23. district: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  24. district: Vocabulary.com
  25. district: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. C-SPAN Congressional Glossary (No longer online)
  3. District: GLOSSARY OF LEGISLATIVE TERMS
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. district: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  7. district: Webster's New World Law Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. district: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. district: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. DISTRICT: Acronym Finder
  3. district: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. The District: A Seattle Lexicon
  2. district, district, the district: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See districted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An administrative division of an area.
noun:  An area or region marked by some distinguishing feature.
noun:  (UK) An administrative division of a county without the status of a borough.
verb:  (transitive) To divide into administrative or other districts.
adjective:  (obsolete) rigorous; stringent; harsh
noun:  (with determiner, informal) The District of Columbia, the federal district of the United States.
noun:  (with determiner, mostly local usage) Any of numerous governmental districts.
noun:  (rail transport) The District Line of the London Underground, originally known as the District Railway.

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