Associations to the word «Presidio»

Wiktionary

PRESIDIO, noun. A garrisoned place, especially one that is or was, at one time, under Spanish control.

Dictionary definition

PRESIDIO, noun. A fortress established in the southwestern United States by the Spanish in order to protect their missions and other holdings; "Tucson was first settled as a walled presidio".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne