Township

3 definitions found

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

  Township \Town"ship\, n.
     1. The district or territory of a town.
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     Note: In the United States, many of the States are divided
           into townships of five, six, seven, or perhaps ten


           miles square, and the inhabitants of such townships are
           invested with certain powers for regulating their own
           affairs, such as repairing roads and providing for the
           poor. The township is subordinate to the county.
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     2. In surveys of the public land of the United States, a
        division of territory six miles square, containing 36
        sections.
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     3. In Canada, one of the subdivisions of a county.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  township
       n : an administrative division of a county; "the town is
           responsible for snow removal" [syn: {town}]

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

  69 Moby Thesaurus words for "township":
     Kreis, Stadt, archbishopric, archdiocese, arrondissement,
     bailiwick, banlieue, bishopric, boom town, borough, bourg, burg,
     burgh, canton, city, commune, congressional district,
     constablewick, conurbation, county, departement, diocese, district,
     duchy, electoral district, electorate, exurb, exurbia, faubourg,
     ghost town, government, greater city, hamlet, hundred, magistracy,
     market town, megalopolis, metropolis, metropolitan area,
     municipality, oblast, okrug, outskirts, parish, polis, precinct,
     principality, province, region, riding, sheriffalty, sheriffwick,
     shire, shrievalty, soke, spread city, stake, state, suburb,
     suburbia, territory, town, urban complex, urban sprawl, urbs,
     village, ville, wapentake, ward