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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)

1. An administrative division of an area.

   the Soho district of London

2. An area or region marked by some distinguishing feature.

   the Lake District in Cumbria

3. (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)

1. (transitive) To divide into administrative or other districts.

Derived terms

• redistrict

Translations

Adjective

district (comparative more district, superlative most district)

1. (obsolete) rigorous; stringent; harsh
   • 1563, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments

     punishing with the rod of district severity

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)

1. district

Derived terms

• kiesdistrict

Descendants

• Afrikaans: distrik
• ? Indonesian: distrik

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis.t?ikt/, /dis.t?ik/

Noun

district m (plural districts)

1. 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)

1. (Jersey) district

Romanian

Etymology

From French district

Noun

district n (plural districte)

1. district

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stæt/
• Rhymes: -æt

Etymology 1

From Latin statim (“immediately”).

Adverb

stat (not comparable)

1. (medicine) Immediately; now.

Translations

Adjective

stat (not comparable)

1. (medicine) With no delay; at once.

   stat dose

Etymology 2

Abbreviation.

Noun

stat (plural stats)

1. (especially in plural) Abbreviation of statistics.

Verb

stat (third-person singular simple present stats, present participle statting, simple past and past participle statted)

1. (slang, role-playing games, transitive) To assign statistics to (a monster, etc. in a game).

   If you stat it, they will kill it.

Etymology 3

Abbreviation.

Noun

stat (plural stats)

1. (Canada, informal) A statutory public holiday (also as stat holiday)

Anagrams

• Tats, Tsat, tast, tats

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• statu

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian stato or Latin status.

Noun

stat n (plural staturi)

1. state, country

See also

• crat, duvleti, vãsilii, amirãrilji

Etymology 2

From Latin status. Compare Romanian stat.

Adjective

stat m (feminine statã)

1. (masculine singular past passive participle of stau used as an adjective) stayed, stopped, remained; stood
2. resided

Synonyms

• stãtut

Cornish

Pronunciation

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [sta?t]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [stæ?t]

Noun

stat m (plural statys or statow)

1. (politics) state, polity
2. situation, state, affair
3. estate

References

• Cornish-English Dictionary from Maga's Online Dictionary
• 2018, Akademi Kernewek Gerlyver Kernewek (FSS) Cornish Dictionary (SWF) (2018 edition, p.173)

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German stat, from Latin status.

Noun

stat c (singular definite staten, plural indefinite stater)

1. A state (polity).

Inflection

Derived terms

• delstat

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin st?tus.

Noun

stat m (plural stac)

1. A state.

Latin

Verb

stat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of st?

Maltese

Alternative forms

• istat (after the article)

Etymology

From Sicilian statu and/or Italian stato, both from Latin status.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sta?t/
• Homophone: stad

Noun

stat m (plural stati)

1. state (condition)
2. state, country, government

Derived terms

• Stati Uniti

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch stat, from Proto-West Germanic *stadi. The umlauted form st?de derives from Old Dutch stedi, a variant which hadn't lost the final -i.

Noun

stat f or m

1. place
2. position, station (of duty)
3. rank, status
4. space, room
5. city

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• st?de (Flemish, Hollandic)

Descendants

• Dutch: stad, stee (bedstee)
  • Afrikaans: stad
• Limburgish: staad

Further reading

• “stat, stede”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “stat”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German stat (“state, rank”), from Latin status (“fixed, set, regular”), perfect passive participle of sist? (“I cause to stand, set, place”), from Proto-Italic *sist? (“stand, place”), from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh?ti (“to be standing up, to be getting up”), from the root *steh?- (“to stand (up)”).

Noun

stat m (definite singular staten, indefinite plural stater, definite plural statene)

1. a state

Derived terms

References

• “stat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German stat, from Latin status.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??t/

Noun

stat m (definite singular staten, indefinite plural statar, definite plural statane)

1. a state, country

   Frankrike er ein av dei største statane i Europa.

   France is one of the largest countries of Europe.

2. (definite form) the government, authorities

   Eg har fått meg jobb i staten.

   I have got a job working for the government.

Derived terms

References

• “stat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *stadi.

Noun

stat f

1. place, location
2. house, abode
3. town, inhabited place

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• stedi

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: stat
  • Dutch: stad

Further reading

• “stat, stedi”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *stadi, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz.

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stéh?tis, an extension of *steh?- and, thus, related to stehen and Stuhl.

Noun

stat

1. A city; a town.
2. A site; a place; a spot.

Synonyms

• (city): burg

Descendants

• German: Stadt, Stätte
• Yiddish: ?????? (shtot)

References

• stat in Gerhard Köbler's 2006 Neuhochdeutsch-althochdeutsches Wörterbuch

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Dutch stad.

Noun

stat

1. city, town

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stat/

Noun

stat m

1. state

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stat/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian stato or Latin status.

Noun

stat n (plural state)

1. state, government

Synonyms

• ?ar?, guvern, regim

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin st?tus.

Noun

stat n (plural state)

1. state, condition
2. situation, position
3. class; category; stature
4. list

Declension

Synonyms

• (condition, situation): condi?ie, situa?ie, pozi?ie
• (class): clas?
• (list): list?, tabel

Verb

stat

1. past participle of sta

See also

• stare

Swedish

Etymology

From Middle Low German stat, from Latin status.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??t/

Noun

stat c

1. A state; a nation.
2. A state; a government; collectively about the ruling hierarchy of a country.
3. A state; part of a federation.
4. (uncountable) A salary paid in kind, usually in combination with a small amount in cash, for agricultural workers abolished with the end of October 1945 (through a collective bargaining agreement). Formerly of wider use, for instance also for some civil servants.

Declension

Synonyms

• (in a federation): delstat, förbundsstat (chiefly about German states)

See also

nation, government

• förstatliga
• statlig
• statschef

salary

• statare

Anagrams

• satt

Tok Pisin

Verb

stat

1. A tense marker that shows that an action is beginning by preceding the verb

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French stade.

Noun

stat (definite accusative stat?, plural statlar)

1. stadium

Synonyms

• stadyum