gobernadora
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