Definition of "corregidor" [corregidor]

• The chief magistrate of a Spanish town. (noun)

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• "The term "corregidor" is normally associated with an island in the Philippines that witnessed one of the most dramatic and tragic episodes of the Second World War -- when a starving, outgunned, and outnumbered band of American and Filipino soldiers finally surrendered to a Japanese invasion force after heroic but futile resistance."
• "I knew that there was an officer in Spain called corregidor, which means a corrector in English, or one who punishes."
• "“El corregidor” was the basis of the ballet “The three-cornered hat,” but it had, according to the Post-Classical Ensemble, never been staged in the United States until Gil-Ordonez led it at BAM on the 17th."