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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Example Sentences

A disillusioned advertising executive is pulled into a time-jumping fantasy when he is mistaken for Sancho Panza.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2020

But they weren’t like Quixote and Sancho Panza.

From The Guardian • Oct. 5, 2019

But Gilliam pressed on and finally managed to complete the film, in which Jonathan Pryce and Adam Driver play contemporary versions of Cervantes' Don Quixote and Sancho Panza characters.

From BBC • May 7, 2018

Thirsty mules can’t drink from their trough because Don Quixote insists it’s a baptismal font; Sancho Panza is roughed up after Quixote doesn’t pay his hotel bill; and on and on.

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2017

I remembered the words of Sancho Panza: An adventuring knight is someone who’s beaten and then finds himself emperor.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover