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Don Quixote
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Don Qui·xo·te  (k-ht, kwkst)
n.
An impractical idealist bent on righting incorrigible wrongs.
[After Don Quixote, hero of a satirical chivalric romance by Miguel de Cervantes.]
Don Quixote [don kee-hoe-tee]
Noun
an impractical idealist [after the hero of Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote de la Mancha]
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Noun1.Don QuixoteDon Quixote - the hero of a romance by Cervantes; chivalrous but impractical
2.Don Quixote - any impractical idealist (after Cervantes' hero)
idealist, dreamer - someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations
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