Meaning

An area or expanse..

Definitions by Sense

1. An area or expanse.
2. (anatomy) A series of connected body organs, such as the digestive tract.
3. A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses.
4. A brief treatise or discourse on a subject.
5. A commentator's view or perspective on a subject.
6. Continued or protracted duration, length, extent
7. (Roman Catholicism) Part of the proper of the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations, used instead of the alleluia during Lenten or pre-Lenten seasons, in a Requiem Mass, and on a few other penitential occasions.
8. (obsolete) Continuity or extension of anything.

Example Sentences

an unexplored tract of sea

the deep tract of hell

a very high mountain joined to the mainland by a narrow tract of earth

small tracks of ground

Another place where, from the aesthetic point of view, a long tunnel would have been a real blessing, is East London as viewed from the carriage window on the old Great Eastern line. Despite a vast change from crowded slums to tracts of wasteland, due to its grim wartime experience, this approach still provides a shabby and unworthy introduction to the great capital.

The church clergy at that writ the best collection of tracts against popery that ever appeared.

improved by tract of time

Nay, in another case of litigation, the unjust Standard bearer, for his own profit, asserting that the cause belonged not to St. Edmund’s Court, but to his in Lailand Hundred, involved us in travellings and innumerable expenses, vexing the servants of St. Edmund for a long tract of time […]

Word Forms

• tracts
• tracting
• tracted

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