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fidalgo

fidalgo noun: a Portuguese nobleman.

fidalgo: a Portuguese nobleman
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Noun

fidalgo (plural fidalgos or fidalgoes)

  1. (historical) A Portuguese nobleman.
    • The blacks and the bastards were so many and the honorable white fidalgos so few.2003, Peter Robb, A Death in Brazil, Bloomsbury, published 2005, page 25

Proper noun capitalized: Fidalgo

Fidalgo (plural Fidalgos)

  1. A surname.

Forms of fidalgo

Noun
pluralfidalgos
pluralfidalgoes
Proper noun
pluralFidalgos

Origin of fidalgo

From Portuguese fidalgo. Doublet of hidalgo.

Borrowed from Portuguese and Galician Fidalgo.

Questions about fidalgo

What does fidalgo mean?
Fidalgo means a Portuguese nobleman.
What part of speech is fidalgo?
Fidalgo can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of fidalgo?
The plural of fidalgo is fidalgos.

Words near fidalgo in the dictionary

  1. ficuses
  2. ficusin
  3. fid
  4. Fid.
  5. Fidaa
  6. fidalgo
  7. fidalgoes
  8. fidalgos
  9. fidarestat
  10. fidaxomicin
  11. fidaxomycin

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