district
English
/ˈdɪstɹɪkt/
noun
Definitions
- An administrative division of an area.
- An area or region marked by some distinguishing feature.
- (UK) An administrative division of a county without the status of a borough.
Etymology
Borrowed from French district derived from Latin districtus, districtus, stringo (strain, draw tight).
Origin
Latin
stringo
Gloss
strain, draw tight
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Detroit English
- Detroiter English
- districthood English
- districtlike English
- districtual English
- districtwide English
- ecodistrict English
- interdistrict English
- intradistrict English
- microdistrict English
- minidistrict English
- multidistrict English
- redistrict English
- subdistrict English
- constringo Latin
- destringo Latin
- districtus Latin
- stringo Latin
- distretto Italian
- district Dutch, Flemish
- Detroit French
- Détroit French
- district French
- détroit French
- distrito Spanish, Castilian
- *streyg- Proto-Indo-European
- distrikt Norwegian Bokmål
- Detroit Portuguese
- distrito Portuguese
- デトロイト Japanese
- distrikt Norwegian Nynorsk
- stres Czech
- district Norman
- 底特律 Chinese
- destrict Scots