adelantado

English

Etymology

Spanish adelantado, from Spanish adelantar (“to advance, to promote”).

Noun

adelantado (plural adelantados or adelantadoes)

1. A governor of a province; a commander.

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Translations

governor of a province

• Portuguese: adelantado m
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Hiligaynon

Etymology

From Spanish adelantado.

Adjective

adelantádo

1. advanced, modern
2. progressive

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Portuguese

Noun

adelantado m (plural adelantados)

1. adelantado (governor of a Spanish province)

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Spanish

Etymology

Past participle of adelantar (“to advance, to promote”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /adelanˈtado/ [a.ð̞e.lãn̪ˈt̪a.ð̞o]

Adjective

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

1. ahead of one's time, advanced
2. gifted or advanced for one's age

   Synonym: precoz

3. early, ahead of time

Derived terms

• adelantadamente
• por adelantado

Noun

adelantado m (plural adelantados)

1. A governor of a province; a commander.

Verb

1. Template:es-verb form of/participle adelantar.

Further reading

• Template:R:DRAE 2001