presidio
noun
a garrisoned fort; military post.
presidios
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pluralof presidio.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The database has informed dozens of articles and books on early California and has allowed thousands of people to trace their own ancestry back to 18th century California pueblos, presidios and Native villages.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2025
Missions, presidios, and pueblos were small polygons of order in the great unruly geometry of Alta California, with wide stretches between them largely ungoverned by the Spanish.
From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2015
Americans had meanwhile occupied Iloilo and the Bisayas, and shortly afterwards the presidios in Mindanao surrendered by the Spaniards.
From A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows
That the names of the four rivers were given by Captain Fernando Rivera, commander of these presidios, when he passed by there during the month of December, 1776.
From Colonial Expeditions to the Interior of California Central Valley, 1800-1820 Anthropological Records 16(6):239-292, 1958 by Sherburne Friend Cook
He left ten missions where there had been but seven, two hundred and sixty-eight soldiers instead of sixty or seventy, and four presidios instead of two, two of them being at strategic points.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton
