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CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A territorial division of a state; entitled to elect one member to the United States House of Representatives
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("congressional district" is a kind of...):
district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)
Holonyms ("congressional district" is a part of...):
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)