Definitions for district

district dis·trict

Spelling: [dis-trikt]
IPA: /ˈdɪs trɪkt/

District is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 121 anagrams from letters in district (cdiirstt).

Definitions for district

noun

  1. a division of territory, as of a country, state, or county, marked off for administrative, electoral, or other purposes.
  2. a region or locality:
  3. British. a subdivision of a county or a town.
  4. the District, the District of Columbia; Washington, D.C.

verb (used with object)

  1. to divide into districts.

Origin of district

1605-15; (Medieval Latin distrīctus exercise of justice, (area of) jurisdiction, derivative of Latin distringere to stretch out (see distrain), equivalent to di-

Examples for district

It has also passed a model child-labor law for the district of Columbia.

Copies were also directed to be distributed through the district.

In January 2014, a lifelong district of Columbia parks employee, Medric Mills, collapsed while walking with his grown daughter.

So, in an unusual order (PDF) issued on New Years Day, district Judge Robert Hinkle clarified the issue.

Of course this is also very true with district attorneys and police officers.

“We do not know where he is,” district Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman told reporters.

He found the district to the north to be a dreary waste, destitute of food and water.

Do you, Mr. district Attorney, whose business it is to send girls there?

But the district Attorney was not inclined to credit the confession.

In the weeks following the Sept. 9, car bombing at the Iranian base, Iran raided a village in the Pakistani district of Chagai.

Word Value for district
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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