Cervantes

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

/ sərˈvæn tiz; Spanish θɛrˈvɑn tɛs, sɛr- /

noun

Mi·guel de

[mi-gel dey; Spanish mee-gel de] /mɪˈgɛl deɪ; Spanish miˈgɛl dɛ/, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra,1547–1616, Spanish novelist and short-story writer.

Example sentences from the Web for cervantes

A nation is the child of its own past, as Cervantes says that a man is the child of his own works.

South America Observations and Impressions |James Bryce
This event was celebrated by Cervantes in a poem which extravagantly lauds his sovereign.

A Short History of Spain |Mary Platt Parmele
A Spanish grandee, as if come out from a page of Cervantes, is selling shoe laces and cuff buttons.

Dust of New York |Konrad Bercovici
And he retained for Cervantes the same admiration all his life.

Bouvard and Pcuchet, part 2 |Gustave Flaubert

It was after Cervantes had received extreme unction that he wrote the dedication of his Persiles.

Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) |Isaac D'Israeli

British Dictionary definitions for cervantes

Cervantes

/ (səˈvæntiːz, Spanish θɛrˈβantes) /

noun

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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