Township: alternatives and connections

Increase by something added; addition; as, an access of territory. [In this sense accession is more generally used.]

In a circuit; here and there within the surrounding space; all about; as, to travel around from town to town.

The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district.

The territory without the walls, but within the legal limits, of a town or city.

An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or f…

In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, con…

A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters; temporary shelter or place of rest for an…

Travelling from house to house or from town to town; itinerant.

A corporate town; in the United States, a town or collective body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen or…

A small territorial district in France under the government of a mayor and municipal council; also, the inhabitants, or the government…

A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are.

The collective body of constables in any town, district, or country.

A division of territory; a defined portion of a state, town, or city, etc., made for administrative, electoral, or other purposes; as,…

That which is governed; territory over which authority is exercised; the tract, district, or county, considered as subject; as, the do…

A tract of land or a territory inclosed within another territory of which it is independent. See Exclave.

the doctrine of expanding the territory or the economic influence of a country

Any definite portion of the earth's surface; region; territory; country. Hence: A territory appropriated to, or resorted to, for a par…

Within the territory or a territory.