gobernadora
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Spanish.
Noun[edit]
gobernadora (plural gobernadoras)
- A female governor in Spanish-speaking regions.
- 1868, The Edinburgh Review:
- […] the inquisitor of Valladolid advanced to the royal platform and demanded that the young Prince and Dona Juana, the gobernadora, should swear […]
- 1941, Hans Christian Adamson, Lands of new world neighbors:
- When the news of Alvarado's death reached his widow in Guatemala, she called all the alcaldes and regidores to the palace and proclaimed herself gobernadora […]
- 2007 January 14, Maggie Galehouse, “Conquer and Convert”, in New York Times[1]:
- Not terribly conflicted by the part she must play, she seems beyond reproach, as effective and inscrutable in battle as she is as a gobernadora.
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gobernadora f (plural gobernadoras)
- female equivalent of gobernador (“governor”)
- creosote bush (Larrea tridentata)
- Synonym: hediondilla
Adjective[edit]
gobernadora
Further reading[edit]
- “gobernador”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Spanish gobernadora.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gobernadora (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜓᜊᜒᜇ᜔ᜈᜇᜓᜇ)
- female equivalent of gobernador: female governor
- wife of a governor
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