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ilustrado

ilustrado noun: an educated wealthy and elite Filipino during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines.

Noun (1)

ilustrado (plural ilustrados)

  1. (Philippines, historical) An educated wealthy and elite Filipino during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines.

Noun (2) capitalized: Ilustrado

Ilustrado (plural Ilustrados)

  1. the Filipino intelligentsia during the Spanish colonial period in the late 19th century.

Forms of ilustrado

pluralilustrados
pluralIlustrados

Origin of ilustrado

Borrowed from Philippine Spanish ilustrado.

From Spanish ilustrado (“erudite, learned, an enlightened one”).

Questions about ilustrado

What does ilustrado mean?
Ilustrado means an educated wealthy and elite Filipino during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines.
What part of speech is ilustrado?
Ilustrado is a noun.
What is the plural of ilustrado?
The plural of ilustrado is ilustrados.

Words near ilustrado in the dictionary

  1. ILUCs
  2. Iluka
  3. Ilulissat
  4. ilupai
  5. iluppai
  6. ilustrado
  7. Ilustrados
  8. iluy
  9. ilvaite
  10. ilvaites
  11. Ilvates

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