Noun

hidalgo (plural hidalgos or hidalgoes)

1. A member of the Spanish nobility, especially one without a title.
   • 1889: W. S. Gilbert, The Gondoliers, Act I

     The young man seems to entertain but an imperfect appreciation of the respect due from a menial to a Castilian hidalgo.

French

Noun

hidalgo m. (plural hidalgos)

1. hidalgo
   • 1837 Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:

     Dans une bourgade de la Manche, dont je ne veux pas me rappeler le nom, vivait, il n’y a pas longtemps, un hidalgo, de ceux qui ont lance au râtelier, rondache antique, bidet maigre et lévrier de chasse.

     In a village of La Mancha, whose name I don't want to remember, lived, not long ago, an hidalgo, of the type that have a lance on the rack, an antique rondache, a meagre horse and a hunting hound.

Spanish

Adjective

hidalgo m. (feminine hidalga, masculine plural hidalgos, feminine plural hidalgas)

1. noble

Hidalgo (Spanish nobility) was a traditional title of persons of the Spanish nobility or gentry.

Hidalgo may also refer to: