Quixote
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /ˈkwɪksət/, /ˈkwɪksəʊt/, /kɪˈhəʊti/
Origin
After Don Quixote.
Full definition of Quixote
Noun
Quixote
(plural Quixotes)- 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.