Definition of City district

1. Noun. A district of a town or city.

Specialized synonyms: Barbary Coast, Precinct, Business District, Downtown, Ghetto, Red-light District, Quarter, Waterfront, Slum, Slum Area, Combat Zone, Tenderloin, Turf, Enterprise Zone, Fringe, Outskirt
Group relationships: City
Generic synonyms: District, Dominion, Territorial Dominion, Territory
Specialized synonyms: West Berlin, Bloomsbury, Soho, Wembley, West End, Hollywood, Nob Hill, Beacon Hill, Coney Island, Harlem, Hell's Half Acre, Hell's Kitchen, Soho, South Of Houston, Off-broadway, Times Square

Lexicographical Neighbors of City District

city-council
city administrator
city administrators
city banker
city bankers
city block
city blocks
city boy
city boys
city break
city center
city centre
city council
city councils
city desk
city district (current term)
city editor
city father
city fathers
city girl
city girls
city hall
city halls
city limit
city limits
city line
city man
city manager
city planning
city room

Literary usage of City district

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report by Cincinnati (Ohio), Board of Education, Cincinnati Public Schools, Cincinnati (Ohio). Board of Education (1893)
"... shall constitute a city district of the first grade of the first class; each city having a population of one hundred and fifty thousand or more, ..."

2. Public School Administration: A Statement of the Fundamental Principles by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1916)
"... CHAPTER VI THE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT The city district a special case. The special form of school district which we wish first to consider is that of the ..."

3. Annual Report by Missouri Division of Mine Inspection, Missouri Bureau of Mines (1900)
"WEBB city district. CENTRE CREEK MINING COMPANY. No mining review of the Webb city district would be complete hout mention of the Centre Creek Mining ..."

4. Special Report by Geological Survey of Alabama, Columbia University, School of Dental and Oral Surgery (1895)
"The Coal city district presents features similar to the Fairview district, except that the measures here assume a distinct basin form, and are thicker. ..."

5. Revised Record of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York by New York (State). Constitutional Convention (1916)
"In comparison with these Senatorial districts the average population of the New York city district is almost twice as great, and it is the natural ..."

6. The Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania from 1682 to 1801 by Pennsylvania, James Tyndale Mitchell, Henry Flanders, Jonathan Willis Martin, Hampton Lawrence Carson, Pennsylvania Commission for the compilation of the laws prior to 1800 (1900)
"... in the year aforesaid, it should and might be lawful for any person or persons residing within the city, district or places aforesaid, or any of them, ..."

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