Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A island of the northern Philippines at the entrance to Manila Bay. After a prolonged siege and bombardment, Filipino and US troops surrendered the fortified island to Japan in May 1942. US paratroopers recaptured it in March 1945.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Spain, the chief magistrate of a town.
- noun In parts of America settled by Spaniards: A magistrate having jurisdiction of certain special cases prescribed by law.
- noun The chief officer of a corregimiento.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The chief magistrate of a Spanish town.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the peninsula and island in the Philippines where Japanese forces besieged American forces in World War II; United States forces surrendered in 1942 and recaptured the area in 1945
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Examples
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The name Corregidor, which stands for mayor, albeit the translation is corrector, is applied to the gateway to Manila.
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After searching in vain all over the island now called Corregidor, they went to Camaya, and there found the young lady,
The Philippine Islands John Foreman
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Zambales, and Mindoro -- in addition to the small island of Corregidor, which is found outside the said province, and which forms a military police commandancy.
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This is particularly true on Pacific islands such as Corregidor, Saipan and Oahu where seed of the Hawaiian type were aerially sown.
Chapter 3 1985
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A grotesquely idle legend of the habits of the "Corregidor" flourishes among the good folks of Valladolid; the speaker himself, who desires to do him justice, is a plain, shrewd, but unimaginative observer ( "I never wrote a line of verse, did you?"), and makes us acquainted with everything but the inner nature of the man.
Robert Browning 1892
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– What a lovely word that was – 'Corregidor' – what does it mean?
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Some of its first occupants were American POWs from the Philippines, and the most noted were the top US Army officers who had been captured after the surrender of Bataan and Corregidor.
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The first POWs to occupy the camp were Americans who were moved north from the Philippines following the collapse of the forces on Bataan and Corregidor.
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On the 21st as it headed for Takao Formosa the convoy was attacked by American carrier aircraft about 80 miles north of Corregidor.
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Our job was to protect the supply convoys traveling between Camp Ramadi to Combat Outpost to Camp Corregidor and back.
Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011
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