Districtとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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”). Doublet of Detroit.

発音

• enPR: dĭs′trĭkt, IPA: /ˈdɪstɹɪkt/
  • ハイフネーション: dis‧trict
  • 韻: -ɪstɹɪkt
• (nonstandard, obsolete) enPR: dēs′trĭkt, IPA: /ˈdiːstɹɪkt/

名詞

district (plural districts)

1. An administrative division of an area.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     ‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘An Alsatia like the ancient one behind the Strand, or the Saffron Hill before the First World War. […]’

   the Soho district of London

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

   the Lake District in Cumbria

3. (UK) An administrative division of a county without the status of a borough.

   South Oxfordshire District Council

4. (mining) A specific, usually named area of the coalface where particular seams are worked.

派生語

関連する語

• districtual

派生した語

• → Luganda: disitulikit

動詞

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.

派生語

• redistrict

形容詞

district (comparative more district, superlative most district)

1. (obsolete) rigorous; stringent; harsh
   • 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:

     punishing with the rod of district severity

参照

Further reading

• “district”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “district”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “district”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.