PRECINCT
Dictionary entry overview: What does precinct mean? • PRECINCT (noun)
The noun PRECINCT has 1 sense:
1. a district of a city or town marked out for administrative purposes
Familiarity information: PRECINCT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PRECINCT (noun)
Meaning:
A district of a city or town marked out for administrative purposes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("precinct" is a kind of...):
city district (a district of a town or city)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "precinct"):
police precinct (a precinct in which law enforcement is the responsibility of particular police force)
election district; voting precinct (one of several districts into which a city or town is divided for voting; each contains one polling place)
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