Don Quixote
noun
Don Qui·xote
ˌdän-kē-ˈ(h)ō-tē 
ˌdäŋ-;
chiefly British dän-ˈkwik-sət
: an impractical idealist
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a latter-day Don Quixote, she's spent her life fighting the state's big logging companies
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The Captive Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar explores Don Quixote author Miguel de Cervantes’ life changing experiences when he was captured by Turkish pirates in 1575 and held for ransom.
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Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 1 Jan. 2025
But Don Quixote, which is often called the first modern novel, could not decisively break from the chivalric tradition without affirming its very real power to ensorcel the reader.
—Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2024
In Don Quixote, Shakespeare’s contemporary Miguel de Cervantes also alludes to rosemary’s medicinal properties.
—Nina Foster, JSTOR Daily, 20 Dec. 2024
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
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Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 1 Jan. 2025
But Don Quixote, which is often called the first modern novel, could not decisively break from the chivalric tradition without affirming its very real power to ensorcel the reader.
—Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2024
In Don Quixote, Shakespeare’s contemporary Miguel de Cervantes also alludes to rosemary’s medicinal properties.
—Nina Foster, JSTOR Daily, 20 Dec. 2024
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
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“Don Quixote.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Don%20Quixote. Accessed 15 Jan. 2025.
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