1. district - Noun
2. district - Adjective
3. district - Verb
4. District - Proper noun
Rigorous; stringent; harsh.
The territory within which the lord has the power of coercing and punishing.
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.
Any portion of territory of undefined extent; a region; a country; a tract.
To divide into districts or limited portions of territory; as, legislatures district States for the choice of representatives.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMy position is to listen to my constituents, learn from the best information available and ultimately make sound, rational decisions that are going to be beneficial to the people of the 8th Congressional District. Gabrielle Giffords
I am maintaining my schedule of commuting to Washington, D.C. each week from Oregon so that I can spend my weekends and days when we are not in session traveling to communities throughout my district. Greg Walden
After all, a district judge who gives harsh sentences to Yankees fans and lenient sentences to Red Sox fans would not be acting reasonably even if her procedural rulings were impeccable. John Paul Stevens
We're in Sarah Palin's 'targeted' list, but the thing is that the way she has it depicted, we're in the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district. When people do that, they've got to realize that there are consequences to that action. Gabrielle Giffords
Terror is trump. Methods of common brutal suppression are considered sanctified laws. "Old Fighters" are saints, and from the district leader upwards there are only Gods! Friedrich Kellner
There is never a cry of "Wolf!" but the wolf is in the district. Italian Proverb