Cervantes

American  

[ser-van-teez, ther-vahn-tes, ser-] / sərˈvæn tiz, θɛrˈvɑn tɛs, sɛr- /

noun

1. Miguel de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547–1616, Spanish novelist and short-story writer.

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Cervantes British  

/ səˈvæntiːz, θɛrˈβantes /

noun

1. Miguel de (miˈɣɛl ðe), full surname Cervantes Saavedra. 1547–1616, Spanish dramatist, poet, and prose writer, most famous for Don Quixote (1605), which satirizes the chivalric romances and greatly influenced the development of the novel

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Cervantes

Cervantes said Shaw was booked in the Van Nuys jail on $50,000 bail.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

This is a play on a botched conjugation of the Spanish verb 'saber' -- to know -- and is used to indicate Latinos who struggle to speak the language of Miguel de Cervantes.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

Lope de Vega wrote of honor and conflict a few doors down from where Miguel de Cervantes penned the first quixotic quest.

From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026

The writer Miguel de Cervantes knew about the Iberian lynx.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

They faced each other one more time, circling in the familiar battle dance while Cervantes circled them in the other direction, like a satellite, completely missing what was really going on between them.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

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