Noun

(en noun)

An administrative division of an area.

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, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘An Alsatia like the ancient one behind the Strand, or the Saffron Hill before the First World War. […]’}}

the Soho district of London

An area or region marked by some distinguishing feature.

the Lake District in Cumbria

(UK) An administrative division of a county without the status of a borough.

South Oxfordshire District Council

Noun

(en noun)

A state where sovereignty rests with the people or their representatives, rather than with a monarch or emperor; a country with no monarchy.

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*:“[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps?? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic??”

(lb) A state, which may or may not be a monarchy, in which the executive and legislative branches of government are separate.

*1795 , (Immanuel Kant),

*:Republicanism is the political principle of the separation of the executive power (the administration) from the legislative; despotism is that of the autonomous execution by the state of laws which it has itself decreed.. None of the ancient so-called "republics " knew this system, and they all finally and inevitably degenerated into despotism under the sovereignty of one, which is the most bearable of all forms of despotism.

One of the subdivisions constituting Russia. See oblast.

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