Results for tract

Definitions of tract:

part of speech: noun

Something drawn out or extended: continued duration: a region: a short treatise.

part of speech: noun

A short pamphlet or leaflet, usually on some moral or religious subject; a large area of land.

Usage examples for tract:

• The extent of their tract was about 4000 acres. "The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852", Ben Casseday

• It is by far the most extensive tract of cultivated land that we have seen in the island, and is improved to its utmost capacity. "Journal of an African Cruiser", Horatio Bridge

• He joined them; then marshaling his men in a wide tract of land at the head of that vast body of water, placed himself with the two supposed De Longuevilles in the van; and in this array marched through the valleys of Strathmore and Strathallen, into Stirlingshire. "The Scottish Chiefs", Jane Porter