district
US: /ˈdɪstɹɪkt/
UK: /dˈɪstɹɪkt/
UK: /dˈɪstɹɪkt/
English Vietnamese dictionary
district /'distrikt/
- danh từ
- địa hạt, khu vực, quận, huyện, khu
- vùng, miền
- the lake district: vùng hồ (ở miền bắc nước Anh)
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) khu vực bầu cử
- (tôn giáo) giáo khu nhỏ
- định ngữ
- thuộc địa hạt, thuộc quận, thuộc huyện, thuộc khu; thuộc giáo khu nhỏ
- district council: hội đồng quận
- a district visistor: bà phước của giáo khu nhỏ (chuyên đi thăm những gia đình nghèo, chăm lo việc từ thiện, cứu tế...)
- thuộc địa hạt, thuộc quận, thuộc huyện, thuộc khu; thuộc giáo khu nhỏ
- ngoại động từ
- chia thành địa hạt, chia thành khu vực, chia thành quận, chia thành huyện, chia thành khu
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun
1 an area of a country or town, especially one that has particular features: the City of London's financial district
2 an area of a country, town or state that has official BOUNDARIES (= borders), for administrative purposes: a tax / postal district + a school district + congressional districts + district councils
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
territory, region, section, sector, division, partition, part, precinct, locality, area, locale, department, province, community, quarter, neighbourhood, ward:
We need a new hospital in our district.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
neighbouring, surrounding
Fire crews from all the surrounding districts helped to fight the fires in the city.
| central
Every city has its central business district.
| outlying, remote
a new railway station to help people commuting from outlying districts
| northern, southern, etc. | affluent, exclusive, rich, wealthy | poor, working-class
the shacks in the poorest districts of the city
| slum | coastal, country, local, metropolitan, rural, suburban, urban | agricultural, business, commercial, financial, industrial, mining, residential, shopping | administrative, electoral, federal, health, military, polling, postal
a federal district court in New York He has been transferred to a hospital in a different health district.
DISTRICT + VERB
stretch
Their district stretches nearly 150 miles, from the mountains to the sea.
DISTRICT + NOUN
authority, council
the district health authority
| councillor, judge, nurse, etc. | court, hospital, etc. | boundary
Redrawing district boundaries would change the election results.
PREP.
in/within a/the ~
The hospital is only responsible for patients within its own district.
Concise English dictionary
districts'dɪstrɪkt
noun
+a region marked off for administrative or other purposes
verb
+regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns
