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Definition of Presidio
1. 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"
Definition of Presidio
1. n. A place of defense; a fortress; a garrison; a fortress; a garrison or guardhouse.
Definition of Presidio
1. Noun. A garrisoned place, especially one that is or was, at one time, under Spanish control. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Presidio
1. a Spanish fort [n -DIOS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Presidio
Literary usage of Presidio
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1875)
"THE presidio OF SAN FRANCISCO. /"~*ALIFORNIA life is made up so V_^ largely of
the material Present, that it is not strange that a romantic history, ..."
2. Texas in the Middle Eighteenth Century: Studies in Spanish Colonial History by Herbert Eugene Bolton (1915)
"The next important step in the history of the missionary enterprise at San Xavier
was the establishment of the presidio. The missionaries had clamored for ..."
3. The Beginnings of San Francisco: From the Expedition of Anza, 1774, to the by Zoeth Skinner Eldredge (1912)
"A presidio was a walled camp about six hundred feet square whose walls of adobe
... Not far from the presidio was the fort or battery, called the castillo. ..."
4. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1898)
"As soon as the work at the presidio was well under way, Quiros, ... These, like
those at the presidio, were of palisades plastered with mud and thatched ..."
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