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Date "QUIXOTE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
"QUIXOTE" is a common misspelling or typo for: quixotic. |
| Domain | Definition |
Biographical Satire | QUIXOTE, Don, famous knight-errant of Spain. Made some desperate conquests for his lady-love, and was defeated by a windmill. In all his defeats, however, he showed to the world that a laugh cuts deeper than a sword, and that satire would kill where a lance could not penetrate. The word quixotic is used to his commemoration. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Literature | Quixote (Don) is intended for the Duke of Lerma. (Rawdon Brown.) Don Quixote. The romance so called is a merciless satire by Cervantes on the chivalric romances of the Middle Ages, and had the excellent effect of putting an end to knight-errantry. Don Quixote's horse. Rosinante (Spanish, rocin-ante, a jade previously). (See Horse.) The wooden-pin wing-horse on which he and Sancho Panza mounted to achieve the liberation of Dolorida and her companions was called Algiero Clavileno (wooden-pin wing-bearer). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Madman | Dreamer; rhapsodist, seer, highflier, enthusiast, fanatic, fanatico; exalte; knight errant, Don Quixote. |
Rashness | Desperado, rashling, madcap, daredevil, Hotspur, fire eater, bully, bravo, Hector, scapegrace, enfant perdu; Don Quixote, knight-errant, Icarus; adventurer; gambler, gamester; dynamitard; boomer. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: QUIXOTE |
| English words defined with "QUIXOTE": To bung up. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "QUIXOTE": Alifanfaron, Altisidora ♦ Bells ♦ Cacus ♦ Felixmarte ♦ Giants, Gonnella's Horse, Guadiana ♦ Hagarenes, Hamet ♦ Knight of La Mancha, Knight of the Rueful Countenance ♦ Maguelone, Malambruno, Mambrino's Helmet, Marcella, Maria Theresa, Maritornes, Melisendra, Moreno ♦ Numancia ♦ OEil ♦ Pentapolin, Phillis ♦ Quixada, Quixote of the North, Quixotic ♦ Rogero,, Ruydera ♦ Samson Carrasco, Sancho Panza, Sobrino ♦ Ubeda ♦ White Moon, Windmills ♦ Zoraida. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "QUIXOTE": Dulcinea. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "QUIXOTE" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (quixote). |
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Screenplays | And you, Seor Don Quixote, your head is going to end up a stranger to your neck! (Man of La Mancha; writing credit: Dale Wasserman) No longer will he be plain Alonso Quijana, but a dauntless knight known as Don Quixote de La Mancha! (Man of La Mancha; writing credit: Dale Wasserman) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Adventures of Don Quixote (1973) Don Quixote (1973) Young People's Concerts: Fantastic Variations (Don Quixote) (1968) Don Quixote (1967) Quixote (1965) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The war of Ormuzd and Ahriman in the 19th century / The modern Quixote and Squire Sancho. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Illustrations of the adventures of the renowned Don Quixote & his doughty squire Sancho Panza. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Don Quixote. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Don Quixote unter der Hirten--Der koelnische Kunst Verein f"ur die Jahre 1845 & 1846 / gemalt von A. Schroedter ; gestochen von Jazet in Paris. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Miguel de Cervantes | The famous Don Quixote de la Mancha, otherwise called The Knight of the Woeful Figure. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | They think not of Don Quixote, but of Leonidas. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay. When ignorance from out of our lives can banish Philology, 'tis folly to know Spanish. Juan Smith |
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Kevin Kline | I went to both, actually, and I was frankly surprised not unlike the character who is sort of a Don Quixote kind of highly idealistic moralist who is from another period in time. |
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| "QUIXOTE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 95.65% of the time. "QUIXOTE" is used about 46 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 95.65% | 44 | 51,500 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.35% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 46 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Quixote Corporation |
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Expression using "QUIXOTE": Don Quixote. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "QUIXOTE": quixote-like. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "QUIXOTE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Donkishot. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الدونكيخوتي رواية شهيرة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Don Quichot (Don Quixote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | donkiĥoto (Don Quixote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ادم خیال پرست . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | don quichotte (don quixote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | δον κιχώτησ (don quixote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "ון קישוט (don quixote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Álmodozó. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ixotequay quixote. (various references) "он-кихот. (various references) don kihot (knight errant). (various references) Quijote. (various references) Donquijot. (various references) Don Kişot (don quixote, knight errant, the knight of the rueful countenance). (various references) "онкіхот. (various references) người h o hiệp viển vông, ch ng Đông-ki-sốt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "QUIXOTE": quixotes. (additional references) | |
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"QUIXOTE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: quiote, Quixotes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "QUIXOTE" (pronounced kēhō"tē) |
| 3 | -ō" t ē | coyote, doty, Roti. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-o-q-t-u-x" | |
-2 letters: quiet, quite, quoit, quote, toque. | |
-3 letters: etui, exit, quit. | |
-4 letters: out, tie, toe, tui, tux. | |
-5 letters: et, ex, it, oe, ox, ti, to, ut, xi, xu. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-o-q-t-u-x" | |
+1 letter: quixotes. | |
+3 letters: quixotries. | |
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