Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun district_of_columbia

1 sense of district of columbia

Sense 1
District of Columbia, D.C., DC -- (the district occupied entirely by the city of Washington; chosen by George Washington as the site of the capital of the United States and created out of land ceded by Maryland and Virginia)
       INSTANCE OF=> federal district -- (a district set apart as the seat of government of a federation)