tract.

1. An area of land considered as a single stretch or parcel.

2. A short written work, often intended to argue a religious or political position.

3. A connected bodily passage or a bundle of nerve fibers considered as a functional pathway.

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Words that belong together

• wooded tract
• remote tract

On the page

A wooded tract separated the settlement from the mine.

The remote tract appeared blank on every recent survey.

Usage notes

Primary category: setting. Forms: Singular tract; plural tracts. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.