alcalde

American  

[al-kal-dee, ahl-kahl-the] / ælˈkæl di, ɑlˈkɑl ðɛ /

Also alcade

noun

alcaldes plural

1. a mayor having judicial powers.

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alcalde British  

/ alˈkalde, ælˈkældɪ, ælˈkeɪd /

noun

1. (in Spain and Spanish America) the mayor or chief magistrate in a town

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• alcaldes
  plural

Etymology

Origin of alcalde

1605–15; < Spanish < Arabic al-qāḍī the judge

Example Sentences

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alcalde alcaldes

“To many of you he was Mayor Riordan or even just mayor. El alcalde de Los Ángeles. To others he was a lawyer, a business partner, a teacher or a philanthropist,” Riordan said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

The alcalde sent a written record of the proceeding to a judge in Saltillo, the state capital, who decided the outcome.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014

Shouted a supporter at his inauguration: "¡Un alcalde para to-dos!"

From Time Magazine Archive

When they die, which is most frequently the case, they are dropped at the next village, to be buried by the alcalde.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various

They had their own alcalde and judge, a tribunal and jail; and on the north side of the river Dominican friars, who had learned the Chinese language, had erected a mission and hospital.

From A History of the Philippines by Barrows, David P.

The alcaldes of the court went to him, and received his declaration, which was necessary to the trial.

From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Llorente, Juan Antonio

Justice is administered by the royal Audiencia, by the alcaldes, and by the gobernadorcillos, the last being Filipinos.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Bourne, Edward Gaylord

This city, made 518nearly a year ago into a Federal district, has a governor and a sufficient number of alcaldes and other subalterns to maintain order and police.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

This feeling extended through all classes, and, through the interposition of Providence, as it was considered by the successful party, the alcaldes were changed, and the republic saved.

From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by Stephens, John L.

Notwithstanding the alcaldes are few who are not often fined during their term.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Bourne, Edward Gaylord