Usually means: Tilting at windmills, chivalric idealist.
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  1. Don Quixote: Merriam-Webster
  2. Don Quixote: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. Don Quixote: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Don Quixote: Vocabulary.com
  5. Don Quixote: Wiktionary
  6. Don Quixote: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. Don Quixote: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Don Quixote, quixote, don: Dictionary.com
  9. Don Quixote (Nik Kershaw Song), Don Quixote (Nik Kershaw song), Don Quixote (Picasso), Don Quixote (Strauss), Don Quixote (TV series), Don Quixote (Teno), Don Quixote (album), Don Quixote (ballet), Don Quixote (character), Don Quixote (disambiguation), Don Quixote (opera), Don Quixote (unfinished film), Don Quixote, Don quixote: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Don quixote: Rhymezone
  11. Don Quixote: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  12. don quixote: FreeDictionary.org
  13. don quixote: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. Don Quixote, Quixote, Don: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. Quixote, Don: Who2
  16. Don Quixote: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  17. don quixote: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  18. Don Quixote: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Don Quixote, Quixote, Don: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. don quixote: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Don Quixote)

noun:  A famous 1605–1615 Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616), whose full title is El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha).
noun:  The protagonist of this novel.
noun:  (also attributive) Any person or character who displays quixotism.

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