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mayorals

mayorals is the plural of mayoral.

Meaning of mayoral

Noun

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
  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., […]...

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Proper noun capitalized: Mayorals

Mayorals

  1. (plural) plural of Mayoral

Questions about mayorals

What is mayorals the plural of?
Mayorals is the plural of mayoral.
What part of speech is mayorals?
Mayorals is a proper noun.

Words near mayorals in the dictionary

  1. Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London
  2. mayor of the palace
  3. mayor-council
  4. mayoral
  5. mayorally
  6. mayorals
  7. mayoralties
  8. mayoralty
  9. mayordom
  10. mayordomo
  11. mayordomos

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