hidalgo
1 Americannoun
plural
hidalgos-
a man of the lower nobility in Spain.
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(in Spanish America) a man who owns considerable property or is otherwise esteemed.
noun
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Juan c1600–85, Spanish composer and harpist.
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a state in central Mexico. 8,057 sq. mi. (20,870 sq. km). Pachuca.
noun
noun
Other Word Forms
- hidalgism noun
- hidalgoism noun
Etymology
Origin of hidalgo
1585–95; < Spanish, contraction of hijo dalgo, Old Spanish fijo dalgo a noble, a person with property, a son with something < Latin filius son + dē from + aliquō something
Example Sentences
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Still, he regularly returned to his masked hidalgo.
From Washington Post • Jul. 10, 2019
In that piece an old Spanish hidalgo in New Mexico in 1847 detects in his son democratic tendencies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today life makes such demands on man that the noble hidalgo Don Juan is to be seen nowhere save in the theater.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even Jack Jaikes, a dark figure of a Spanish hidalgo, in engineer's blue serge and pockets continually bulging with spanners, looked in and said with brusque courtesy: "Anything I can do for you, Chief?"
From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
At that moment a page brought word to the King that the dead body of a hidalgo had been found, early that morning, in the plaza near where the Casa Pilatos now stands.
From The Story of Seville by Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)
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