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cervantes
/sɚˈvæntiːz/
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What does cervantes mean?
proper noun
- A municipality of Os Ancares, Lugo, Galicia, Spain.
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616), an influential Spanish author.
- A surname from Spanish.
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proper noun
- The star Mu Arae.
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Sesse, Mocino, and Cervantes, whose drawings had been sent to the Museum of Natural History of Madrid.
How many systems of philosophy, how many subtle speculations, have we not seen fathered upon Dante, Cervantes, Shakespeare, and Goethe!
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Dickens has given us an immortal figure in the genial, generous and impulsive Mr. Pickwick, and Cervantes satirized knighthood by depicting the trusting, credulous Don Quixote.
He is free to a certain extent, even as the captives described by Cervantes; but his freedom is upon sufferance, and is brought to an end at any time at the pleasure of his seniors.
Perhaps there is no part even of Naples where crime so much abounds, and the law is so little respected, as at Triana, the character of whose inmates was so graphically delineated two centuries and a half back by Cervantes, in one of the most amusing of his tales.