noun
a region marked off for administrative or other purposes
• Hypernyms: ↑region
• Hyponyms:
↑administrative district, ↑administrative division, ↑territorial division, ↑borderland, ↑border district, ↑march, ↑marchland, ↑city district, ↑congressional district, ↑development, ↑enclave, ↑palatinate, ↑residential district, ↑residential area, ↑community, ↑goldfield, ↑jurisdiction, ↑mandate, ↑mandatory, ↑protectorate, ↑associated state, ↑possession, ↑trust territory, ↑trusteeship, ↑British East Africa, ↑British West Africa
• Instance Hyponyms:
↑Palatinate, ↑Pfalz, ↑Athos, ↑Mount Athos, ↑Attica, ↑Boeotia, ↑Papal States, ↑Acadia, ↑Northwest Territories, ↑Nunavut, ↑Yukon, ↑Yukon Territory, ↑Northern Territory, ↑Northern Marianas, ↑Northern Mariana Islands, ↑Acre, ↑Lake District, ↑Lakeland, ↑Galloway, ↑Lothian Region, ↑East Malaysia, ↑Sabah, ↑North Borneo, ↑Sarawak, ↑West Malaysia, ↑Natal, ↑KwaZulu-Natal, ↑American Samoa, ↑Eastern Samoa, ↑AS, ↑Aragon, ↑Castile, ↑Castilla, ↑Catalonia, ↑Darfur, ↑Kordofan, ↑Louisiana Purchase
Useful english dictionary. 2012.