"Quixote" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈkwɪksət/ [UK], /ˈkwɪksəʊt/ [UK], /kɪˈhəʊti/ [UK] Forms: Quixotes [plural]
Rhymes: -əʊti Etymology: After Don Quixote. Head templates: {{en-noun}} Quixote (plural Quixotes)
  1. Someone resembling Don Quixote; someone who is chivalrous but unrealistic; an idealist. Categories (topical): People, Stock characters Derived forms: Quixote yucca Related terms: quixotic
    Sense id: en-Quixote-en-noun-EFM8UDJu Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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        {
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        }
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        {
          "ref": "1723, Charles Walker, Sally Salisbury:",
          "text": "I had once determined to fix the terrible Name of some Man of War in the Front of your History, a perfect Hero, that should like another Quixot defend your Reputation right, or wrong [...].",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1929, Cecil Day Lewis, Transitional Poem:",
          "text": "Few things can more inflame / This far too combative heart / Than the intellectual Quixotes of the age / Prattling of abstract art.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 268:",
          "text": "But he was also a natural chronicler: one senses that, even as his schemes collapsed, this aesthetic Arab Quixote knew the stories would make great material for his witty, sharp, melancholic writings.",
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        ],
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          "unrealistic",
          "unrealistic"
        ],
        [
          "idealist",
          "idealist"
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          "word": "quixotic"
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      "ipa": "/ˈkwɪksəʊt/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kɪˈhəʊti/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
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    }
  ],
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          "ref": "1723, Charles Walker, Sally Salisbury:",
          "text": "I had once determined to fix the terrible Name of some Man of War in the Front of your History, a perfect Hero, that should like another Quixot defend your Reputation right, or wrong [...].",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1929, Cecil Day Lewis, Transitional Poem:",
          "text": "Few things can more inflame / This far too combative heart / Than the intellectual Quixotes of the age / Prattling of abstract art.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 268:",
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          "unrealistic"
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          "idealist",
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      "ipa": "/ˈkwɪksət/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkwɪksəʊt/",
      "tags": [
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    },
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      "ipa": "/kɪˈhəʊti/",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-əʊti"
    }
  ],
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}

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