单词 | adelantado |
释义 | adelantado /ad'l ahn tah"doh/; Sp. /ah'dhe lahn tah"dhaw/, n. , pl. adelantados /-dohz/; Sp. /-dhaws/. Hist. 1. a governor of a province in Spain or of a Spanish colonial province. 2. any of the early explorers, conquerors, or colonizers in Spanish America. [1835-45, Amer.; < Sp, n. use of ptp. of adelantar to go forward, deriv. of adelante in front (a- ( < L ad- AD-) + delante before, for denante < LL de in ante)] |
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