[ぐん(P);こおり, gun (P); koori] (n) (1) (ぐん only) district; county; (2) (See 国郡里制) district (of 2-20 50-home neighbourhoods or townships, in the ritsuryo period); (P) #135[Add to Longdo]
[ごうりせい, gourisei] (n) (See 国郡里制) township-neighbourhood system (redefining the province-district-neighbourhood system, establishing 50-home townships of 2-3 neighbourhoods each; 715-740 CE) [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries 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) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
township
n 1: an administrative division of a county; "the town is
responsible for snow removal" [syn: {township}, {town}]
แสดงได้ทั้งความหมายของคำเดี่ยว และคำผสม ได้อย่างถูกต้อง
เช่น Secretary of State=รัฐมนตรีต่างประเทศของสหรัฐฯ (ในภาพตัวอย่าง),
High school=โรงเรียนมัธยมปลาย
