CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does congressional district mean? 

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

1. a territorial division of a state; entitled to elect one member to the United States House of Representatives

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT (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)