Infanta

//ʔɪnˈfan̪.t̪ɐ// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The daughter of a king in Spain or Portugal.

    "It was a dispatch intended specifically to communicate a sense of closure to the Spanish monarchs, to show that England possessed a dynasty fit for an infanta of Spain."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A municipality of the province of Quezon, Philippines.

Example

More examples

"It was a dispatch intended specifically to communicate a sense of closure to the Spanish monarchs, to show that England possessed a dynasty fit for an infanta of Spain."

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish infanta, Portuguese infanta, feminine of infante.

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