Cervantes

[ ser-van-teez; Spanish ther-vahn-tes, ser- ]

noun
  1. Mi·guel de [mi-geldey; Spanish mee-gelde], /mɪˈgɛl deɪ; Spanish miˈgɛl dɛ/, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547–1616, Spanish novelist and short-story writer.

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How to use Cervantes in a sentence

  • This is Cervantes's description of the national stage in the time of his immediate predecessor, Lope de Rueda.

    Spanish Life in Town and Country | L. Higgin and Eugne E. Street
  • It was love that opened Cervantes's eye, and it is in all-embracing love that Shakespeare was deficient.

  • Yet Miguel Cervantes, the author of this book which is so amusing, had dragged on the most wretched and melancholy existence.

    Library Notes | A. P. Russell
  • Michael Cervantes composed the best and most agreeable book in the Spanish language, during his captivity in Barbary.

British Dictionary definitions for Cervantes

Cervantes

/ (səˈvæntiːz, Spanish 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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