adelantados were granted directly by the monarch the right to become governors.. See 7 authoritative translations of adelantado in english with example sentences, phrases and audio pronunciations.
Additionally, adelantado serves as the past participle of the verb adelantar, making it useful in compound tenses such as he adelantado, meaning i have advanced, or había adelantado,.. Adelantado adelantado, title often given to the leader of an expedition of conquest in medieval castile and in the new world.