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Definition: PRESIDIO |
PRESIDIONoun1. A place of defense; a fortress; a garrison; a fortress; a garrison or guardhouse. |
Date "PRESIDIO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references) |
Etymology: Presidio \Pre*si"di*o\, noun. [Spanish expression]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: PRESIDIO |
| Non-English Usage: "PRESIDIO" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Italian (aid, defence, defense, garrison, protection), Spanish (fortress, garrison, penal servitude, penitentiary, praesidium, presidio, presidium, prison). |
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According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 6.7 km² (2.6 mi²). 6.7 km² (2.6 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.Geography
Presidio is located at 29°33'41" North, 104°21'59" West (29.561272, -104.366522)1.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Presidio, Texas."
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Movie/TV Titles | Mujeres en presidio (1967) Disloque en el presidio (1965) El Presidio (1954) Carne de presidio (1952) Las Puertas del presidio (1949) | |
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 | The Golden Gate Bridge as seen from atop NOAA's Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Office at the Presidio, San Francisco. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | "The Presidio of Monterrey." In: "A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World" by Captain George Vancouver. Volume II, Plate V, page 440. Library Call Number G420 .V22 1798. Credit: Treasures of the Library. |
 | The San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area, containing about 40 miles of the upper San Pedro River, was designated by Congress as a National Conservation Area (NCA) on November 18, 1988. The primary purpose for the designation is to protect and enhance the desert riparian ecosystem, a rare remnant of what was once an extensive network of similar riparian systems throughout the southwest. The NCA contains more than 250 recorded prehistoric and historic sites, including the remnants of a Spanish fort called the Presidio Santa Cruz de Terrenate built in 1780. Credit: Unknown. |  | U.S. Army. Letterman General Hospital, Presidio, San Francisco, Ca. : [Interior view of ward showing nurses and patients]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | U.S. Army Station Hospital, Presidio of Monterey, California. : Gas heating system. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [U.S. Army. Letterman General Hospital, Presidio, San Francisco, CA] : [Baseball game on the Parade Grounds]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Letterman General Hospital, Presidio of San Francisco, Cal., 1920. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Presidio and Fort Winfield Scott, San Francisco, Calif. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Fort Winfield Scott; Presidio and Fort Mason overlooking San Francisco Bay. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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1. Presidio, TX (city, FIPS 59396) |
Expression using "PRESIDIO": Presidio County. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "PRESIDIO"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kala (acropolis, aerie, aery, Castle, citadel, Fort, fortress, hold, stronghold, tower), fortesë (bastion, citadel, Fort, fortress, gusset, stronghold). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | укрепление (rampart, stronghold), форт (counter), гарнизонен град. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پادگان (Garrison), زندان (Calaboose, Coop, Dungeon, Gaol, Grate, Jail, Prison), دژ (Castle, Citadel, Fort, Stronghold). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | erõd (Fort, fortification, fortress, stronghold). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | esidiopray presídio (presidium), praça de guerra, forte (accomplished, acute, bold, bouncing, brawny, cogent, decuman, firm, forceful, forcible, fort, forte, fortress, full-blooded, hale, hard, heavy, hefty, high, high-hearted, intense, intensive, keen, loud, lusty, manly, masculine, masterful, mighty, nappy, penetrating, pithy, potent, racy, red-blooded, robust, salt, sanguineous, seaworthy, sharp, sinewy, snorting, solid, stalwart, stark, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, substantial, swingeing, telling, tough, two-fisted, unfailing, vehement, venturous, vigorous, wakeless, wholesome). (various references) крепость (alcazar, citadel, concentration, fastness, firmness, fortress, hardiness, hardness, heartiness, kick, lustiness, strength, stronghold). (various references) prezidijum (presidium). (various references) presidio (fortress, garrison, penal servitude, penitentiary, praesidium, presidium, prison). (various references) fort (apace, fast, fort, fortress, hard, hastily, quick, quickly, rapidly, sharp, speedily). (various references) фортеця (alcazar, bastille, citadel, fortress, muniment), гауптвахта. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "PRESIDIO": presidios. (additional references) | |
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"PRESIDIO" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: persidio, precidio, presido, prosimii. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PRESIDIO" (pronounced prusi"dēō') |
| 3 | -d ē ō' | audio, radio, rodeo, studio. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-i-o-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: periods, spiroid. | |
-2 letters: dopers, dopier, dories, iodise, irides, irised, pedros, period, poised, poiser, prides, prised, prosed, redips, spider, spired, spored. | |
-3 letters: dipso, doers, doper, dopes, dorps, doser, dries, drips, drops, eidos, irids, osier, pedro, peris, piers, poise, pored, pores, posed, poser, pride, pried, pries, prise, prods, prose, redip, redos, repos, resid, resod, rides. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-i-o-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: periodids, presidios, prodigies, sporicide, tripodies. | |
+2 letters: dispersion, dispersoid, editorship, eriophyids, imprisoned, improvised, isoprenoid, perditions, perfidious, podiatries, sporicides. | |
+3 letters: chiropodies, description, diaphoresis, dispersions, dispersoids, editorships, peridotites, periodicals, personified, predictions, prehominids, premodifies, previsioned, provisioned, pyridoxines, redisposing, soldiership, torpidities, triploidies. | |
+4 letters: basidiospore, depilatories, depositaries, depositories, deprivations, descriptions, diaphoretics, diphtheroids, directorship, ideographies, impoverished, jeopardising, perfidiously, periodontics, periodontist, preadmission, predications, predigestion, predisposing, profundities, radioisotope, redepositing, repositioned, repudiations, soldierships, trepidations. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 52 45 53 49 44 49 4F |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. . ... .. -.. .. --- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01010010 01000101 01010011 01001001 01000100 01001001 01001111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P R E S I D I O |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0052 0045 0053 0049 0044 0049 004F |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5052395343384349 |
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