Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun corregidor

1 sense of corregidor

Sense 1
Bataan, Corregidor -- (the peninsula and island in the Philippines where Japanese forces besieged American forces in World War II; United States forces surrendered in 1942 and recaptured the area in 1945)
       INSTANCE OF=> siege, besieging, beleaguering, military blockade -- (the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack)