Use the word district to talk about a specific part of your city or town. Your school district, for example, is an officially marked area that designates which school students can attend.
Rigorous; stringent; harsh.
Noun
a region marked off for administrative or other purposes
Verb
regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns
a.
Rigorous; stringent; harsh.
n.
The territory within which the lord has the power of
coercing and punishing.
n.
A division of territory; a defined portion of a state,
town, or city, etc., made for administrative, electoral, or other
purposes; as, a congressional district, judicial district, land
district, school district, etc.
n.
Any portion of territory of undefined extent; a region; a
country; a tract.
v. t.
To divide into districts or limited portions of
territory; as, legislatures district States for the choice of
representatives.
District
Punishing with the rod of district severity.
District
To exercise exclusive legislation . . . over such district not exceeding ten miles square.3.
These districts which between the tropics lie.
District
Rigorous; stringent; harsh.
The territory within which the lord has the power of coercing and punishing.
To divide into districts or limited portions of territory;
Usage Examples
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel on New York's 49th Street, peal the tune of 'There's No Business Like Show Business.' If you walk the streets of the theatre district before a show and see the vast, enthusiastic lines it sounds like a calling: there is certainly no place like Broadway.
Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view.
My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it.
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Other Usage ExamplesWell, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.
As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.
I have long been a supporter of the Head Start program because each and every year I witness the dramatic positive impact that early intervention services have on children's lives in my congressional district.
You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.
Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.