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How to spell district
What it means: A defined area for administrative purposes.
In a sentence: The district had a big, colorful fair with lots of rides.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as distrcit or distric.
Same family: redistrict, districting, zoning, region. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: District comes from Latin 'districtus', meaning 'territory under control', from a verb meaning 'to draw apart' or 'restrain'. Over time, the noun ‘district’ inspired the verb sense used in city planning, meaning to divide land into regulated areas.
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