Definitions for don quixote
ˌdɒn kiˈhoʊ ti, -teɪ, dɒn ˈkwɪk sətdon quixote

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Don Quixotenoun

   the hero of a romance by Cervantes; chivalrous but impractical

2. Don Quixotenoun

   any impractical idealist (after Cervantes' hero)

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1. Don Quixotenoun

   Any person or character who displays quixotism.

2. Don Quixotenoun

   A Spanish novel whose full title is El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha).

3. Don Quixotenoun

   The protagonist of the novel.

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1. Don Quixote

   Don Quixote is a song by the English singer-songwriter Nik Kershaw from his 1984 studio album The Riddle. Released in August 1985 as the final single from that album, it reached #10 on the UK Singles Chart in September 1985, and became Kershaw's seventh (and last) consecutive UK Top 20 hit single. A month before "Don Quixote" was released as a single, it was the second of four songs played by Kershaw at Live Aid. The others were previous singles "The Riddle", "Wouldn't It Be Good" and "Wide Boy".

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1. don quixote

   Don Quixote is the title character in the novel "Don Quixote de la Mancha," written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. First published in the 17th century, the book is considered a foundational work in Western literature. The character Don Quixote is an idealistic, chivalrous and slightly mad nobleman who sets off on a quest as a knight-errant, defending the helpless and punishing the wicked, despite his perpetual misinterpretation of reality due to his profound obsession with medieval romance novels. His adventures with his loyal squire, Sancho Panza, serve as humorous and poignant commentary on the nature of perception and reality, idealism, and the human condition.

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1. Don Quixote

   Don Quixote, fully titled The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, is a novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. It follows the adventures of Alonso Quijano, an hidalgo who reads so many chivalric novels that he decides to set out to revive chivalry, under the name Don Quixote. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthly wit in dealing with Don Quixote's rhetorical orations on antiquated knighthood. Don Quixote is met by the world as it is, initiating such themes as intertextuality, realism, metatheatre, and literary representation. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, respectively, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature, and one of the earliest canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published. In a 2002 list, Don Quixote was cited as the "best literary work ever written".

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1. Don Quixote

   the title of a world-famous book written by Miguel Cervantes, in satire of the romances of chivalry with which his countrymen were so fascinated; the chief character of which gives title to it, a worthy gentleman of La Mancha, whose head is so turned by reading tales of knight-errantry, that he fancies he is a knight-errant himself, sallies forth in quest of adventures, and encounters them in the most commonplace incidents, one of his most ridiculous extravagancies being his tilting with the windmills, and the overweening regard he has for his Dulcinea del Tobosa.

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1. don quixote

   Quotes by don quixote -- Explore a large variety of famous quotes made by don quixote on the Quotes.net website.

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1. Don Quixote

   Famous knight-errant of Spain. Made some desperate conquests for his lady-love, and was defeated by a windmill. In all his defeats, however, he showed to the world that a laugh cuts deeper than a sword, and that satire would kill where a lance could not penetrate. The word quixotic is used to his commemoration.

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1. • Fictional Character
   • Idealist

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of don quixote in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of don quixote in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of don quixote in a Sentence

1. Angel Gutierrez:

   The two most well-known things about La Mancha are Don Quixote and our (manchego) cheese.

2. George Bernard Shaw:

   Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.

3. Ethan Demme:

   When Bob Hollister're running a third party and Bob Hollister're trying to recruit candidates for a third party, Bob Hollister have to have a little bit of Don Quixote, i wouldn't be doing this if I didn't legitimately think that our democracy is actually under attack. And that's what January 6 showed.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=don quixote
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Don_Quixote
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=don quixote
6. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#DonQuixote
7. ^ Who Was Who?
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/984/pg984-images.html#:~:text=don quixote