<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>keeping; guardianship; care.</li><li>the keeping or charge of officers of the law.</li><li>imprisonment; legal restraint.</li><li>Law. the right of determining the residence, protection, care, and education of a minor child or children, especially in a divorce or separation.</li><li>a division of territory, as of a country, state, or county, marked off for administrative, electoral, or other purposes.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb:</strong></p><ul><li>to divide into districts.</li></ul>