Noun: alcalde
| Singular | alcalde |
| Plural | alcaldes |
Sample Sentences
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There's to be a fair, you know. The alcalde announced it. He's got a good head for business, our alcalde has. [1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter I, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 10:]
Nouns inflected like alcalde
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish alcalde, from Arabic اَلْقَاضِي (al-qāḍī, “the judge”). Doublet of qadi and casis. See: Spanish Nouns '
alcalde'.