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tract¹
- /tɹækt/
Sounds like tracked · Rhymes with -ækt
Where it comes from
From Middle English tract, tracte, traht (“a treatise, exposition, commentary”), from Old English traht, tract (“a treatise, exposition, commentary, text, passage”); and also from Middle English tract, tracte (“an expanse of space or time”); both from Latin tractus (“a haul, drawing, a drawing out”), the perfect passive participle of trahō. Doublet of trait.
noun tracts
- An area or expanse. an unexplored tract of sea
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A series of connected body organs, such as the digestive tract.
Similar: system
- A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses.
- A brief treatise or discourse on a subject. The church clergy at that writ the best collection of tracts against popery that ever appeared.
- A commentator's view or perspective on a subject.
- Continued or protracted duration, length, extent improved by tract of time
- 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.
- Continuity or extension of anything. in tract of speech
- Traits; features; lineaments. The discovery of a man's self by the tracts of his countenance is a great weakness.
- The footprint of a wild animal. The Prophet Telemus […]mark'd the Tracts of every Bird that flew
- Track; trace. Efface all tract of its traduction.
- Treatment; exposition. The tract of every thing Would, by a good discourser, lose some life Which action's self was tongue to.
tract²
- /tɹækt/
Sounds like tracked · Rhymes with -ækt
Where it comes from
From Latin tractus, the participle stem of trahere (“to pull, drag”).
verb tracts · tracting · tracted
- To pursue, follow; to track. Where may that treachour then (said he) be found, / Or by what meanes may I his footing tract?
- To draw out; to protract. Speak to me , muse , the man , who after Troy was sack'd , Saw many towns and men , and could their manners tract.
tract³
- /tɹækt/
Sounds like tracked · Rhymes with -ækt
Where it comes from
From Latin tractāre, from tractō, from trahō + -tō.
verb tracts · tracting · tracted
- To treat, discourse, negotiate.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: parcel, pathway, pamphlet, nerve pathway, nerve tract, apparatus, device, bunch, plat, route, piece, way, patch, motion, lane, appliance
Translations
Talk about this word "tract." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/tract. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. tract. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/tract "tract." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/tract.Cite this
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title = {tract},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
