Sancho Panza

noun

San·​cho Pan·​za ˌsän-chō-ˈpän-zə 

ˌsan-chō-ˈpan-zə

: the squire of Don Quixote in Cervantes' Don Quixote

Examples of Sancho Panza in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

From Mike Sancho Panza, via Facebook The bill for December was double the norm. —Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 14 Mar. 2025

And once again, our two heroes — recast as Don Quixote and Sancho Panza tilting at wind turbines — struggle to reconcile the myths that men write for themselves with the realities that life is actually willing to offer them. —David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 19 Nov. 2024

Lil Rel Howery, effortlessly funny in most of his other films, gets an equally raw deal as Moose, the Sancho Panza to Harold’s Don Quixote. —David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 31 July 2024

Such a candidate must always play Sancho Panza to someone else's Don Quixote, riding the burrow beside the questing knight. —Ron Elving, NPR, 30 Mar. 2024

There are streetwise brothel madams, cat-and-mouse chases across the dusty plains, a Sancho Panza in the form of a louche British sharpshooter, a flash of lightning that reveals the cruel ranger’s face. —Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024

There, in La Mancha, there’s a Don Quixote and a Sancho Panza willing to right wrongs. —Holly Jones, Variety, 18 Aug. 2022

The production is choreographed by Elizabeth Wistrich and based on Miguel de Cervantes’ epic novel that tells of the adventures of the errant knight, Don Quixote and his squire, Sancho Panza, who journey to find the dreamy Dulcinea. —San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2022

Stevie Van Zandt, his longtime guitar player and Sancho Panza in the E Street Band, is constantly on Twitter, promoting his latest music obsession, whacking Donald Trump, boosting voting rights, and retweeting an occasional pet video. —David Remnic, The New Yorker, 17 July 2021

Word History

Etymology

Spanish

First Known Use

1762, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for Sancho Panza

• bonanza
• extravaganza
• stanza