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don quixote

/don kee-hoh-tee, don -kwik-suht; Spanish dawn kee-haw-te/US // ˌdɒn kiˈhoʊ ti, dɒn ˈkwɪk sət; Spanish dɔn kiˈhɔ tɛ //

堂吉诃德,唐吉诃德,唐吉坷德

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the hero of a novel by Cervantes who was inspired by lofty and chivalrous but impractical ideals.
    • : the novel itself.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • As we went round-robin through the squares on screen, it reminded me of the awkwardness of my earliest Spanish immersion classes, where we stumbled our way through reading Don Quixote aloud.

  • The playwright re-imagines knight Don Quixote as a professor whose fantasies take center stage in a Texas border town.

  • By 1904, Don Quixote had become one of Einstein’s favorite books.

  • We brought in Don Lemon, the year that he wrote his book, and I told that story to the audience that was there.

  • Nobody knows chaotic living quite like Don Draper, what with juggling high profile clients, his many paramours, and travel.

  • The Old-Fashioned is the crème of the cocktail crop—according to Don Draper, at least.

  • She reportedly also had a book collection worth more than €20 million, including a first edition of Don Quixote from 1605.

  • Don Terry, a senior writer at the Southern Poverty Law Center, doubts it.

  • "Don Alvar de Mendoce, for example," muttered Alphonse, between his teeth.

  • This was when Don Joan Ronquillo, with that great fleet, went out and fought the one that the enemy maintained along these coasts.

  • Don Diego beckoned two guards, who immediately drew near their prisoner.

  • The same has been said of Don Juan de Alvarado, ex-fiscal, and that is known throughout the country as a public matter.

  • You have not delivered into the hands of our chief, Don Emilio Aguinaldo, the money as agreed upon.