Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To act like Don Quixote; play the Quixote: with indefinite it.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun Don Quixote, the
eponymous hero of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes - proper noun Any of various musical compositions based on the novel.
Etymologies
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Examples
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For those who haven't been keeping up, "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote" is a mixture of adaptation and creative license.
Terry Gilliam Looks To Robert Duvall For His Don Quixote » MTV Movies Blog 2009
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In conclusion, Don Quixote from the Land of the Blind is in despair.
Global Voices in English » Azerbaijan: Youth activist expelled from university 2009
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"Don Quixote is the first modern novel, perhaps the most eternal novel ever written and certainly the fountainhead of European and American fiction; here you have Gogol and Dostoevsky, Dickens and Nabokov, Borges and Bellow, Sterne and Diderot in their genetic nakedness, once more taking to the road with the gentleman and the squire, believing the world is what we read and discovering that the world reads us."
Richard C. Morais: Our Knight In Shining Armor Richard C. Morais 2010
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Do you think "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote" is Gilliam's best chance in recent years to rival his top efforts?
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Don Quixote is practically unthinkable as a living being, and yet, in our memory, what character is more alive?
Richard C. Morais: Our Knight In Shining Armor Richard C. Morais 2010
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Don Quixote is greater today than he was in Cervantes 'womb.
Richard C. Morais: Our Knight In Shining Armor Richard C. Morais 2010
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"Don Quixote is the first modern novel, perhaps the most eternal novel ever written and certainly the fountainhead of European and American fiction; here you have Gogol and Dostoevsky, Dickens and Nabokov, Borges and Bellow, Sterne and Diderot in their genetic nakedness, once more taking to the road with the gentleman and the squire, believing the world is what we read and discovering that the world reads us."
Richard C. Morais: Our Knight In Shining Armor Richard C. Morais 2010
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Don Quixote is not a story one would think for the stage, because the flights of fancy are so great, but Jeffries 'puppets create a wonderful alternate reality on stage.
Don Quixote joshenglish 2009
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Don Quixote is practically unthinkable as a living being, and yet, in our memory, what character is more alive?
Richard C. Morais: Our Knight In Shining Armor Richard C. Morais 2010
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Don Quixote is greater today than he was in Cervantes 'womb.
Richard C. Morais: Our Knight In Shining Armor Richard C. Morais 2010
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