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adelantados

adelantados is the plural of adelantado.

Meaning of adelantado

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....

Questions about adelantados

What is adelantados the plural of?
Adelantados is the plural of adelantado.

Words near adelantados in the dictionary

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

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