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a•de•lan•ta•do
(ad′l än tä′dō; Sp. ä′ᵺe län tä′ᵺô),USA pronunciation n., pl. -dos (-dōz; Sp. -ᵺôs).USA pronunciation [Hist.]
- Foreign Terms, World Historya governor of a province in Spain or of a Spanish colonial province.
- Foreign Terms, World Historyany of the early explorers, conquerors, or colonizers in Spanish America.
- Late Latin dē in ante)
- Latin ad- ad-) + delante before, for denante
- Spanish, noun, nominal use of past participle of adelantar to go forward, derivative of adelante in front (a- (
- 1835–45, American.