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adelantado

adelantado noun: a title bestowed by the king on certain nobles in the 15th-17th centuries, who granted them governorship of a province or charged them with conquering a foreign territory.

Noun

adelantado (plural adelantados or adelantadoes)

  1. (historical) A title bestowed by the king on certain nobles in the 15th-17th centuries, who granted them governorship of a province or charged them with conquering a foreign territory
    • The grand master[…]communicated it to the principal chiefs on the borders ; among others , to Don Pedro Henriquez , adelantado of Andalusia , Don Juan de Silva , count of Cifuentes , Don Alonso de Aguilar , and the marquis of Cadiz .1838, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: American Stationers’ Company; John B....

Forms of adelantado

pluraladelantados
pluraladelantadoes

Origin of adelantado

Borrowed from Spanish adelantado, from Spanish adelantar (“to advance, to promote”).

Questions about adelantado

What does adelantado mean?
Adelantado means a title bestowed by the king on certain nobles in the 15th-17th centuries, who granted them governorship of a province or charged them with conquering a foreign territory.
What part of speech is adelantado?
Adelantado is a noun.
What is the plural of adelantado?
The plural of adelantado is adelantados.

Words near adelantado in the dictionary

  1. Adelaideans
  2. Adelaidian
  3. Adelaidians
  4. adelantadillo
  5. adelantadillos
  6. adelantado
  7. adelantadoes
  8. adelantados
  9. Adelanto
  10. Adelard
  11. adelaster

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