adelantado

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

adelantado (plural adelantados or adelantadoes)

1. (historical) 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
   • 1838, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: American Stationers’ Company; John B. Russell, →OCLC:

     The grand master […] communicated it to the principal chiefs on the borders ; among others , to Don Pedro Henriquez , adelantado of Andalusia , Don Juan de Silva , count of Cifuentes , Don Alonso de Aguilar , and the marquis of Cadiz .

• “adelantado”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Borrowed from Spanish adelantado.

• Hyphenation: a‧de‧lan‧ta‧do
• IPA^(key): /ʔadelanˈtado/, [ʔʌ.d̪ɪ.l̪ʌn̪ˈt̪a.d̪ɔ]

adelantado

1. advanced

adelantado

1. for a clock to be ahead of actual time

• adelanto

From Spanish adelantado.

adelantádo

1. advanced, modern
2. progressive

adelantado m (plural adelantados)

1. adelantado (governor of a Spanish province)

Past participle of adelantar (“to advance, to promote”).

• IPA^(key): /adelanˈtado/ [a.ð̞e.lãn̪ˈt̪a.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: a‧de‧lan‧ta‧do

adelantado (feminine adelantada, masculine plural adelantados, feminine plural adelantadas)

1. ahead of one's time, advanced

   Synonym: adelantado a su época

2. gifted or advanced for one's age

   Synonym: precoz

3. early, ahead of time

adelantado m (plural adelantados)

1. a governor of a province; a commander

adelantado (feminine adelantada, masculine plural adelantados, feminine plural adelantadas)

1. past participle of adelantar

• “adelantado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from Spanish adelantado.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔadelanˈtado/ [ʔɐ.dɛ.lɐnˈta.do]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: a‧de‧lan‧ta‧do

adelantado (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜇᜒᜎᜈ᜔ᜆᜇᜓ)

1. advanced; earlier than expected or needed

   Synonyms: maaga, maagap, mabilis

2. developed; progressive (of a people, nation, etc.)

   Synonyms: maunlad, progresibo

3. paid in advance
4. impudent; brazen

   Synonyms: pangahas, mapangahas

adelantado (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜇᜒᜎᜈ᜔ᜆᜇᜓ)

1. (historical, politics) governor general (specifically during the early Spanish regime)

   Synonym: gobernador heneral

• “adelantado”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018