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ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A district defined for administrative purposes
Synonyms:
administrative district; administrative division; territorial division
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("administrative division" 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 division"):
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)
