Other forms: districts
A district is one named part of a city or region with its own character. The financial district, a residential district, the Lake District.
In British local government, district is an official tier — a district council — and district nurse and district judge are formal titles. In America a school district and a congressional district are administrative units with defined boundaries. The word is more official than neighbourhood, which is where you live, or quarter, which is used of old European city areas. Note the red-light district, which is a fixed phrase in every English-speaking country.
1noundistrictA named part of a city or region.
“The whole district was rebuilt after the war.”
2nounadministrativeAn administrative division of local government.
“The district council decides the planning application.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
district is an area.
Also accepted in games: neighborhood, neighbourhood, quarter
Medieval Latin districtus meant the area within which a lord could exercise justice, from distringere, to draw apart or constrain — the same verb behind strict and distress. A district was defined by who could compel you inside it.
Proto-Indo-European
*streyg-
Latin
districtus
Medieval Latin
districtus — a district within which the lord may distrain, also jurisdiction
French
district
English, today
district
Built from
From French district, from Medieval Latin districtus (“a district within which the lord may distrain, also jurisdiction”), from Latin districtus, past participle of distringo (“to draw asunder, compel, distrain”), from dis- + stringere. a doublet of Detroit.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA