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adelantado.

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

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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

    historical
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Spanish adelantado, from Spanish adelantar (“to advance, to promote”).

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