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district
English
Etymology
From French district, from Medieval Latin districtus (“a district within which the lord may distrain, also jurisdiction”), from Latin districtus, past participle of distringere (“to draw asunder, compel, distrain”), from dis- (“apart”) +? stringere (“to draw tight, strain”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: d?s?tr?kt, IPA(key): /?d?st??kt/
- Hyphenation: dis?trict
Noun
district (plural districts)
- An administrative division of an area.
- the Soho district of London
- An area or region marked by some distinguishing feature.
- the Lake District in Cumbria
- (Britain) An administrative division of a county without the status of a borough.
- South Oxfordshire District Council
Derived terms
Related terms
- districtual
Translations
Verb
district (third-person singular simple present districts, present participle districting, simple past and past participle districted)
- (transitive) To divide into administrative or other districts.
Derived terms
- redistrict
Translations
Adjective
district (comparative more district, superlative most district)
- (obsolete) rigorous; stringent; harsh
- 1563, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments
- punishing with the rod of district severity
- 1563, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments
Further reading
- district in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- district in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- district at OneLook Dictionary Search
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch district, from Middle French district, from Medieval Latin districtus (“a district within which the lord may distrain, also jurisdiction”), from Latin districtus, past participle of distring?, distringere (“draw asunder, compel, distrain”), from dis- (“apart”) + string?, stringere (“draw tight, strain”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?s?tr?kt/
- Hyphenation: dis?trict
- Rhymes: -?kt
Noun
district n (plural districten, diminutive districtje n)
- district
Derived terms
- kiesdistrict
Descendants
- Afrikaans: distrik
- ? Indonesian: distrik
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dis.t?ikt/, /dis.t?ik/
Noun
district m (plural districts)
- district
Norman
Etymology
Borrowed from French district, from Medieval Latin districtus (“a district within which the lord may distrain, also jurisdiction”), from Latin districtus, past participle of distring?, distringere (“draw asunder, compel, distrain”), from dis- (“apart”) + string?, stringere (“draw tight, strain”).
Noun
district m (plural districts)
- (Jersey) district
Romanian
Etymology
From French district
Noun
district n (plural districte)
- district
Declension
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landscape
English
Alternative forms
- landskip (obsolete)
Etymology
From an alteration (due to Dutch landschap) of earlier landskip, lantschip, from Middle English *landschippe, *landschapp, from Old English lands?ipe, lands?eap (“region, district, tract of land”), equivalent to land +? -ship; in some senses from Dutch landschap (“region, district, province, landscape”), from Middle Dutch landscap, lantscap (“region”), from Old Dutch *landskepi, *landskapi (“region”). Cognate with Scots landskape, landskep, landskip (“landscape”), West Frisian lânskip (“landscape”), Low German landschop (“landscape, district”), German Landschaft (“landscape, countryside, scenery”), Swedish landskap (“landscape, scenery, province”), Icelandic landskapur (“countryside”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?landske?p/
Noun
landscape (countable and uncountable, plural landscapes)
- A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.
- A sociological aspect of a physical area.
- A picture representing a real or imaginary scene by land or sea, the main subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water, etc.
- The pictorial aspect of a country.
- (computing, printing, uncountable) a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides
- A space, indoor or outdoor and natural or man-made (as in "designed landscape")
- (figuratively) a situation that is presented, a scenario
- The software patent landscape has changed considerably in the last years
Antonyms
- (printing mode): portrait
Meronyms
- See also Thesaurus:landscape
Derived terms
- landscape gardener
- landscape gardening
- -scape
Translations
Verb
landscape (third-person singular simple present landscapes, present participle landscaping, simple past and past participle landscaped)
- To create or maintain a landscape.
Translations
See also
- dreamscape
- moonscape
- seascape
- skyscape
Anagrams
- lap dances, lap-dances, lapdances
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