mayoral

Adjective

mayoral (comparative more mayoral, superlative most mayoral)

1. Relating to a mayor (or the office of the mayor).
   • The mayoral seal was applied to all official correspondence of the mayor.
   • Let’s have a quick recap of some of Han’s more rational campaign pledges during last year's mayoral campaign to see how he has performed in his current position. We will leave aside things like building a Disneyland, drilling for oil off the Taiping Islands, constructing an F1 circuit, and turning...2019 October 25, David Spencer, “Hilarious Han is taking Taiwan’s voters for fools once more”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2019

Noun

UK/ˌmɑːjə(ʊ)ˈral/US/ˌmɑjəˈrɑl/

mayoral (plural mayorals)

1. A Spanish-speaking overseer of a bull ranch.
   • A thrust of the lance, and the mayoral says bullring or slaughterhouse.1972, Stephen Marlowe, “Only Goya”, in Colossus: A Novel about Goya and a World Gone Mad, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →LCCN, book 5, page 363
   • The mayoral was dressed in much the same fashion as the other men but instead of a lance he carried a short braided quirt to emphasize his almost feudal authority. As overseer of the ranch, his commands were limited to monosyllables; more frequently, he merely gestured with the quirt.1974, William Hjortsberg, “Miércoles”, in Toro! Toro! Toro!, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 45
2. (historical) A Spanish-speaking overseer of an estate’s slaves.
   • The mayoral who oversees the band, / Before me now is standing, whip in hand, / The straw-hat slouching o’er his olive face, / Sturdy in figure, active in his pace; / Nor coat nor waistcoat incommode his breast.1840, [Juan Francisco Manzano], translated by R[ichard] R[obert] Madden, “The Sugar Estate”, in Poems by a Slave in the Island of Cuba, Recently Liberated; […], London: Thomas Ward and Co., […]...
   • All mayorals of this country, wear a sword about four feet long; and ride about the estate on horse back. […] The counter mayorals are only allowed a whip. They, too, as soon as promoted, with whip in hand assume a bearing and deportment towards their fellows that are cruel and sometimes barbarous...1842 August 6, Republicano [pseudonym], “Two Months on a Sugar Plantation in Cuba”, in Massachusetts Ploughman, volume 1, number 45, Boston, Mass., page [4], column 5

Proper noun capitalized: Mayoral

Mayoral (plural Mayorals)

1. A surname.