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Don Quixote

noun as in visionary

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She reportedly also had a book collection worth more than €20 million, including a first edition of Don Quixote from 1605.

They portrayed the Secretary as a kind of well-meaning but naïve Don Quixote flailing vainly against windmills.

He had gone on to such projects as a 28-foot marionette for the 1965 Balanchine production of Don Quixote.

When he dreams his own impossible dream, Jack Abramoff is not so much Don Quixote as Don Corleone.

At an orchestral rehearsal, held specially for him, he conducted his new Don Quixote Fantasia.

Don Quixote was always doing generous but rather foolish things, and the adjective quixotic now describes this sort of action.

Michael was now in a perplexity for literary recreation, until he remembered Don Quixote.

I tried it; but, in the spirit of Don Quixote with his helmet, I did not try it hard.

But he will not fight the windmills of Spain on an old mule like Don Quixote.

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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to Don Quixote, such as: dreamer, idealist, prophet, romantic, seer, and theorist.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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