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See definition of presidio on Dictionary.com
  • as instronghold
  • as infortification

synonyms for presidio

  • bastion
  • fortress
  • garrison
  • redoubt
  • bulwark
  • castle
  • citadel
  • fastness
  • fort
  • fortification
  • keep
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How to use presidio in a sentence

Mounted orderlies were dashing at breakneck speed between the Presidio and the city.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON
A Citizens' Patrol had been formed to protect the still unburned districts, each man provided with arms at the Presidio.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON
A fort was erected where the present Presidio stands, and later a battery of cannon was placed at Black Point.
STORIES OF CALIFORNIAELLA M. SEXTON
Carmen has wheedled the surgeon of the presidio to such good purpose that she has managed to get her rom out of prison.
CARMENPROSPER MERIMEE
The result is best shown by medical reports from the Fifteenth Infantry, lately stationed at the Presidio.
THE ROAD OF A THOUSAND WONDERSPASSENGER DEPT. SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO
At this point we turned around; the plains run to the parallel of the presidio.
THE ABORIGINAL POPULATION OF ALAMEDA AND CONTRA COSTA COUNTIES, CALIFORNIAS. F. COOK
Cum autem illuc peruenisset, timore eius consternata pars aduersa cessit, fuge presidio se saluando.
BEOWULFR. W. CHAMBERS
It has a Spanish presidio and its fort, whose castellan is the alcalde-mayor of that jurisdiction.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, 14931898, VOLUME XXXVI, 16491666VARIOUS
In the islands called Calamianes is located an alcalde-mayor with a small presidio, as it lies opposite the Camucones enemy.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, 14931898, VOLUME XXXVI, 16491666VARIOUS
As soon as he quitted the Presidio, he hastened to the Mission with a disquieting fear that his strange guest might have vanished.
THE CRUSADE OF THE EXCELSIORBRET HARTE
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