adelantado
noun
adelantado is a noun meaning “A title bestowed by the king on certain nobles in the 15th-17th centuries, who granted them governorship of a province or charged them with…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-D-E-L-A-N-T-A-D-O, and it appears about once in every 33 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of adelantado is adelantados or adelantadoes.
What does adelantado mean?
noun
- 1
A title bestowed by the king on certain nobles in the 15th-17th centuries, who granted them governorship of a province or charged them with conquering a foreign territory
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of adelantado
- adelantados plural
- adelantadoes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is adelantado?
Adelantado appears about once in every 33 million words in written English, the 176,009th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Adelantado in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense governor of a province:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | adelantado |
| Spanish | adelantado |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does adelantado come from?
Borrowed from Spanish adelantado, from Spanish adelantar (“to advance, to promote”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).