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say it: pri-SID-ee-oh
presidio is a noun meaning "a fortress established in the southwestern United States by the Spanish in order to protect their missions and other holdings". It is pronounced /pɹɪˈsɪdiˌoʊ/ — pri-SID-ee-oh. It carries one recorded sense.
a fortress established in the southwestern United States by the Spanish in order to protect their missions and other holdings
“Tucson was first settled as a walled presidio”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for presidio come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.