Associations to the word «Corregidor»

Wiktionary

CORREGIDOR, noun. The chief magistrate of a Spanish town.

Dictionary definition

CORREGIDOR, 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.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope