gobernadora

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noun

A female governor in Spanish-speaking regions.

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Meanings

noungobernadora (plural gobernadoras)

plural gobernadoras

  1. A female governor in Spanish-speaking regions.

    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.

    2007 January 14, Maggie Galehouse, “Conquer and Convert”, in New York Times
    2 more examples

    […] the inquisitor of Valladolid advanced to the royal platform and demanded that the young Prince and Dona Juana, the gobernadora, should swear […]

    1868, The Edinburgh Review

    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 […]

    1941, Hans Christian Adamson, Lands of new world neighbors

Origin

From Spanish.

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APA

gobernadora. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gobernadora

MLA

“gobernadora.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gobernadora. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gobernadora,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gobernadora.

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