adelantado

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Spanish, from adelantar to advance, to promote.

NounEdit

adelantado (plural adelantados or adelantadoes)

1. A governor of a province; a commander.

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TranslationsEdit

governor of a province

• Portuguese: adelantado m

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for adelantado in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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HiligaynonEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Spanish adelantado.

AdjectiveEdit

adelantádo

1. advanced, modern
2. progressive

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PortugueseEdit

NounEdit

adelantado m (plural adelantados)

1. adelantado (governor of a Spanish province)

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SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Past participle of adelantar to advance, to promote.

AdjectiveEdit

adelantado (feminine singular adelantada, masculine plural adelantados, feminine plural adelantadas)

1. rash, precipitate (hasty, not careful or considered)

Related termsEdit

• por adelantado

SynonymsEdit

• precipitado

NounEdit

adelantado m (plural adelantados)

1. A governor of a province; a commander.

VerbEdit

adelantado m (feminine singular adelantada, masculine plural adelantados, feminine plural adelantadas)

1. Past participle of adelantar.