1 (technical) a system of organs or tubes in the body that are connected and that have a particular purpose:
the digestive / urinary tract
2 an area of land, especially a large one:
vast tracts of forest * They bought a 40-acre tract of land for development.
3 (sometimes disapproving) a short piece of writing, especially on a religious, moral or political subject, that is intended to influence people's ideas:
socialist / feminist tracts * He wrote several tracts on the dangers of alcohol.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for tract is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is tract a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, tract is tagged as noun.
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