Quixote

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈkwɪksÉ™t/, /ˈkwɪksəʊt/, /kɪˈhəʊti/

Origin

After Don Quixote.

Full definition of Quixote

Noun

1. Someone resembling Don Quixote; someone who is chivalrous but unrealistic; an idealist. from 17th c.
• 1723, Charles Walker, Sally Salisbury:I had once determined to fix the terrible Name of some Man of War in the Front of your History, a perfect Hero, that should like another Quixot defend your Reputation right, or wrong ....
• 1929, Cecil Day Lewis, Transitional Poem:Few things can more inflame
  This far too combative heart
  Than the intellectual Quixotes of the age
  Prattling of abstract art.