HOW TO PRONOUNCE
quixote
/kiˈhoʊti/
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What does quixote mean?
noun
- One resembling Don Quixote; someone who is chivalrous but idealist.
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IPA pronunciation
/kiˈhoʊti/
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He said if I warn’t so ignorant, but had read a book called Don Quixote, I would know without asking.
The next day he called with translations of Homer and ‘Don Quixote,’ which the boy proceeded to read with great avidity.
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The place so called is a collection of ruinous houses, which put me in mind of the Fulling mills mentioned in “Don Quixote.”
Don Quixote might and would serve his lady in most preposterous fashion, but I am sure he would have chosen a lady of merit.
There was in Burton, as in most great men, a touch of the Don Quixote, derived, no doubt, in his case, from his father.