Enclave

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Enclave \En*clave"\, n. [F., fr. L. in + clavus a nail.]
     A tract of land or a territory inclosed within another
     territory of which it is independent. See {Exclave}. [Recent]
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Enclave \En*clave"\, v. t. [Cf. F. enclaver.]
     To inclose within an alien territory. [Recent]
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  enclave
       n : an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the
           foreign territory that surrounds it

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  39 Moby Thesaurus words for "enclave":
     arena, block, cincture, clos, close, confine, container, coop,
     court, courtyard, croft, curtilage, delimited field, enclosure,
     field, fold, forty, ground, kraal, list, lot, pale, paling,
     parcel of land, park, patch, pen, plat, plot, plot of ground, quad,
     quadrangle, real estate, section, square, theater, toft, tract,
     yard