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FEDERAL DISTRICT

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• FEDERAL DISTRICT (noun)
The noun FEDERAL DISTRICT has 1 sense:

1. a district set apart as the seat of government of a federation

Familiarity information: FEDERAL DISTRICT used as a noun is very rare.

• FEDERAL DISTRICT (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A district set apart as the seat of government of a federation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

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

administrative district; administrative division; territorial division (a district defined for administrative purposes)

Instance hyponyms:

D.C.; DC; District of Columbia (the district occupied entirely by the city of Washington; chosen by George Washington as the site of the nation's capital and created out of land ceded by Maryland and Virginia)

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