adelantado

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noun

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

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Meanings

nounadelantado (plural adelantados or adelantadoes)

plural adelantados · plural adelantadoes

  1. historicalA 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. Russell, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Spanishadelantar“to advance, to promote”
  2. Spanishadelantado
  3. Englishadelantado

Borrowed from Spanish adelantado, from Spanish adelantar (“to advance, to promote”).

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Translations

Portuguese adelantado
  • adelantadogovernor of a province
Spanish adelantado
  • adelantadogovernor of a province
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