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    ADMINISTRATIVE DISTRICT

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A district defined for administrative purposesplay

    Synonyms:

    administrative district; administrative division; territorial division

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting spatial position

    Hypernyms ("administrative district" is a kind of...):

    district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "administrative district"):

    ward (a district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections)

    town; township (an administrative division of a county)

    province; state (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)

    prefecture (the district administered by a prefect (as in France or Japan or the Roman Empire))

    municipality (an urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government)

    shire (a former administrative district of England; equivalent to a county)

    school district (a district whose public schools are administered together)

    reservation; reserve (a district that is reserved for particular purpose)

    federal district (a district set apart as the seat of government of a federation)

    department (the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France))

    county palatine (the territory of a count palatine)

    county ((United States) the largest administrative district within a state)

    country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)

    commune (the smallest administrative district of several European countries)

    city (an incorporated administrative district established by state charter)

    canton (a small administrative division of a country)

    borough (one of the administrative divisions of a large city)

    Instance hyponyms:

    Lower Egypt (one of the two main administrative districts of Egypt; consists of the Nile delta)

    Upper Egypt (one of the two main administrative districts of Egypt; extends south from Cairo to Sudan)

    Khabarovsk (an administrative territory in Russia on the eastern coast of Siberia)

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