Need another word that means the same as “district”? Find 26 synonyms and 30 related words for “district” in this overview.
The synonyms of “District” are: dominion, territorial dominion, territory, neighbourhood, area, region, place, locality, locale, community, quarter, sector, vicinity, zone, block, part, spot, patch, domain, canton, province, state, county, shire, parish
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “district” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| area | A particular environment or walk of life. The area of a triangle. |
| block | The length of one side of a block especially as a measure of distance. There is a block of classrooms in the west wing. |
| canton | A city on the Zhu Jiang delta in southern China; the capital of Guangdong province and a major deep-water port. They rejected the possibility of dividing the country into cantons. |
| community | A group of people having a religion, ethnic, profession, or other particular characteristic in common. The gay community in London. |
| county | Relating to or characteristic of aristocratic people with an ancestral home in a particular county. It is the county s third final in four years. |
| domain | The content of a particular field of knowledge. The French domains of the Plantagenets. |
| dominion | A region marked off for administrative or other purposes. Man s attempt to establish dominion over nature. |
| locale | The scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting. Her summers were spent in a variety of exotic locales. |
| locality | The position or site of something. A working class locality. |
| neighbourhood | A district or community within a town or city. She lived in a wealthy neighbourhood of Boston. |
| parish | A local church community. A parish church. |
| part | The appropriate or expected behaviour in a particular role or situation one s duty. Body parts. |
| patch | An adhesive piece of drug-impregnated material worn on the skin so that the drug may be absorbed gradually over a period of time. The bird has a bright red patch under its wing. |
| place | The particular portion of space occupied by something. Who owns this place. |
| province | A principal administrative division of a country or empire. It was his province to take care of himself. |
| quarter | A quarter of a hundredweight 28 pounds. He fed four quarters into the slot machine. |
| region | The approximate amount of something usually used prepositionally as in in the region of. In the abdominal region. |
| sector | The minimum track length that can be assigned to store information unless otherwise specified a sector of data consists of 512 bytes. Operations in the southern sector of the North Sea. |
| shire | A county, especially in England. |
| spot | A mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit. An ideal picnic spot. |
| state | A state of depression or agitation. We re worried about her state of mind. |
| territorial dominion | Nonprofessional soldier member of a territorial military unit. |
| territory | An area defended by a team or player in a game or sport. Sorties into enemy territory. |
| vicinity | The area near or surrounding a particular place. The number of people living in the immediate vicinity was small. |
| zone | A well-defined region extending round the earth between definite limits, especially between two parallels of latitude. A 40 km demilitarized zone. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “district” as a verb can have the following definitions:
| zone | Designate a specific area for use or development as a particular zone in planning. Houston he told us was the only town in the country that was zoned properly. |
| area | A space allocated for a specific use. It was his area of specialization. |
| autonomous | Denoting or performed by a device capable of operating without direct human control. An autonomous judiciary. |
| borough | A municipal corporation in certain US states. |
| bucolic | A pastoral poem. The church is lovely for its bucolic setting. |
| city | A town created a city by charter and usually containing a cathedral. The staff were in turmoil it was panic city. |
| constituency | The body of voters who elect a representative for their area. Most politicians are more interested in the voice of their constituency. |
| county | Relating to or characteristic of aristocratic people with an ancestral home in a particular county. One of the most attractive towns in the county. |
| domain | The set of possible values of the independent variable or variables of a function. The country s isolation in the domain of sport. |
| domestic | Converted or adapted to domestic use. Domestic chores. |
| downtown | In or into a downtown area. A downtown bar. |
| littoral | The littoral zone. Limpets and other littoral molluscs. |
| local | Of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood. The street was full of locals and tourists. |
| locality | An area or neighbourhood. The rock s size and locality. |
| metropolitan | Relating to or denoting a metropolitan or his see. The Boston metropolitan area. |
| municipal | Relating or belonging to or characteristic of a municipality. Municipal offices. |
| municipality | The governing body of a municipality. Voters in each municipality choose between four candidates. |
| neighborhood | The approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of. The price is in the neighborhood of 100. |
| prefecture | (in certain countries) a district under the authority of a prefect or governor. Enraged fans besieged the Prefecture of Police. |
| province | A principal administrative division of a country or empire. Chengdu capital of Sichuan province. |
| provincial | The head or chief of a province or of a religious order in a province. The general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials. |
| quarter | A quarter of a hundredweight 25 pounds. He fed four quarters into the slot machine. |
| realm | A kingdom. The defence of the realm. |
| region | The approximate amount of something usually used prepositionally as in in the region of. Regions of outer space. |
| regional | Relating to or characteristic of a region. Regional variations. |
| subdivide | Form into subdivisions. The cells subdivided. |
| suburban | Contemptibly dull and ordinary. Suburban life. |
| town | The chief city or town of a region. A rift between the city s town and gown. |
| urban | In, relating to, or characteristic of a town or city. An urban comedy. |
| welsh | Fail to honour (a debt or obligation incurred through a promise or agreement. Banks began welshing on their agreement not to convert dollar reserves into gold. |
| zone | Designate a specific area for use or development as a particular zone in planning. A pedestrian zone. |
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