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• corregidor
  corregidor

  noun

  the chief magistrate of a town in Spain.
• Corregidor
  Corregidor

  noun

  an island in Manila Bay, in the Philippines: U.S. forces defeated by the Japanese in May, 1942. 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).

corregidor

¹ American  

[kuh-reg-i-dawr, -dohr, kawr-re-hee-thawr] / kəˈrɛg ɪˌdɔr, -ˌdoʊr, kɔrˌrɛ hiˈðɔr /

noun

corregidors, plural corregidores plural

1. the chief magistrate of a town in Spain.

2. History/Historical. (in Spanish America)

   1. a minor administrative unit.

   2. the chief officer of such a district.

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Corregidor ² American  

[kuh-reg-i-dawr, -dohr, kawr-re-hee-thawr] / kəˈrɛg ɪˌdɔr, -ˌdoʊr, kɔrˌrɛ hiˈðɔr /

noun

1. an island in Manila Bay, in the Philippines: U.S. forces defeated by the Japanese in May, 1942. 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).

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Corregidor British  

/ kəˈrɛɡɪˌdɔː /

noun

1. an island at the entrance to Manila Bay, in the Philippines: site of the defeat of American forces by the Japanese (1942) in World War II

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• corregidores
  plural
• corregidors
  plural

Etymology

Origin of corregidor

1585–95; < Spanish, derivative of corregir to correct

Example Sentences

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We are interlopers here, and so too is Zama, a Spanish corregidor played in a superbly weary, bone-dry performance by Daniel Giménez Cacho.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2018

He, the corregidor, had sent people in pursuit of them; but as yet there were no tidings of their capture.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 by Various

An order had arrived from the corregidor of Avila, commanding that the person of Lopez should be set at liberty, and that the books which had been found in his possession should be alone detained. 

From The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] by Borrow, George Henry

The corregidor was easily persuaded to follow his wife’s counsel, for his conscience told him that the Indians had just cause to hate him.

From Manco, the Peruvian Chief An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas by Cooper, A.W.

He, the corregidor, had sent people in pursuit of them, but as yet there were no tidings of their capture.

From Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 by Various

Army Forces in the Far East, ordered U.S. and Philippine troops to evacuate Manila and to withdraw to the jungle-clad Bataan Peninsula and nearby island fortress on Corregidor.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2023

Army Pacific, to the island of Corregidor earlier this month, where, as part of a tour, they both looked at the American guns that were supplied to the Philippines in the early 1900s.

From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2023

The command headquarters surrendered at Corregidor Island nearly a month later.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

MacArthur’s forces had fallen back to the Bataan Peninsula and the fortified island of Corregidor, where the general had set up his headquarters in the network of underground tunnels carved deep into the rock.

From Salon ● Nov. 11, 2018

They try to remain hopeful, but in May 1942 they receive devastating news: Corregidor, the island where General MacArthur had established his new headquarters, has been defeated.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

I don't know your courts, your judges, or your corregidores.

From The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Harte, Bret

This American comrade shall bribe his courts, his corregidores.

From The Story of a Mine by Harte, Bret

Small municipal matters are regulated by the alcaldes and corregidores, and everything relating to the general government, to the military, and to foreigners, by the commandants, acting under the governor-general.

From Two Years Before the Mast by Dana, Richard Henry

In 1480 the king and queen sent one or more corregidores into every self-governing town and city in Castile where such officials did not exist already.

From American Nation: a history — Volume 1: European Background of American History, 1300-1600 by Cheyney, Edward Potts

These distributions were under the superintendence of the provincial authorities, the corregidores, and the sub-delegados.

From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Ross, Thomasina

All the other cities and the different authorities received similar letters, which were inclosed in others to the corregidors.

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

The Indians have many grievances against the corregidors and encomenderos.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 11 of 55 1599-1602 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 Robertson, James Alexander

Alcaldes-mayor and corregidors The alcalde-mayor of Tondo, with a salary of three hundred pesos.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 14 of 55 1606-1609 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 Blair, Emma Helen

Charles, though ignorant of its cause, perceived this at a glance, and greeted him thus:— 'Enter Don Philip II, the Duke of Alva, alguazils, corregidors, and executioners.'

From The Heir of Redclyffe by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

The procurador, corregidors, all, in short, stood in open-mouthed wonder at this strange proceeding.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 by Various