Sancho Panza

American  

[san-choh pan-zuh, sahn-chaw pahn-thah] / ˈsæn tʃoʊ ˈpæn zə, ˈsɑn tʃɔ ˈpɑn θɑ /

noun

1. the credulous and amusing squire of Don Quixote.

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Sancho Panza Cultural  

1. In Don Quixote, the down-to-Earth peasant who accompanies the idealistic, deluded Don on his adventures. Sancho is a delightful coward, more interested in material comfort and safety than in performing courageous acts.

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Sancho Panza

But Sophie Cunningham has let the state turn her into a combination of Sancho Panza and Don Quixote, willing to joust with a windmill.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

Bertie and Jeeves, as the British essayist Alexander Cockburn once asserted, are a pairing as momentous in literary history as Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, or Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2025

Referring to the PM's comments, the minutes add: "We did not pursue our self-interest with the ruthless determination of the US and France. We had tended to play Sancho Panza to the US Don Quixote."

From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2019

But they weren’t like Quixote and Sancho Panza.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2019

The envelope read: "To the Honorable Don Sancho Panza, Governor of Barataria Island, in his own hands or in the hands of his secretary."

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios