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/kəngrˈɛʃənəl dˈɪstrɪkt/ Listen

noun

District n.

1.

(Feudal Law) The territory within which the lord has the power of coercing and punishing.

2.

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. "To exercise exclusive legislation... over such district not exceeding ten miles square."

3.

Any portion of territory of undefined extent; a region; a country; a tract. "These districts which between the tropics lie."

Congressional district. See under Congressional.

District attorney, the prosecuting officer of a district or district court.

District court, a subordinate municipal, state, or United States tribunal, having jurisdiction in certain cases within a judicial district.

District judge, one who presides over a district court.

District school, a public school for the children within a school district. (U.S.)

Synonyms: Division; circuit; quarter; province; tract; region; country.

adjective

Congressional adj. Of or pertaining to a congress, especially, to the Congress of the United States; as, congressional debates. "Congressional and official labor."

Congressional District, one of the divisions into which a State is periodically divided (according to population), each of which is entitled to elect a Representative to the Congress of the United States.

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Etymology of 'Congressional district'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Congressional district" Quotes from Famous Books

... Knapp printed Letters from John Quincy Adams to his Constituents of the Twelfth Congressional District in Massachusetts, to which is added his Speech in Congress, delivered February 9, 1837, and the following stood as an introduction ...

— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier

... was nominated by a large portion of the Democratic electors of the Lincoln Congressional District as their candidate for Congress. That district has recently shown itself to possess a decided Whig majority; and this would have been equally the case in 1836, had any other man than Mr. Cilley appeared on the Democratic side. He had likewise to contend, as in all the former scenes ...

— Biographical Sketches - (From: "Fanshawe and Other Pieces") • Nathaniel Hawthorne

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