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don

noun
/dɒn/UK/dɑn/US

Etymology

* As an English and Scottish surname, variant of Dunn. * Also as an English and Scottish surname, from Dun, a place in Scotland. * As an Italian surname, variant of Dono, shortened from dono di Dio (“gift of God”). * As a Galician surname, from a nickname derived from don (“kindness, favor”). * As a Hungarian surname, variant of Donát, Donath. * As a French surname of Germanic origin, from the old name Dodo, related to Dodier, from the name Dodhari, the first element a reduplicated word of arbitrary origin and the second from *hari (“army”). * Also as a French surname, from the place Don in Nord. * As a Jewish surname, from a variant of Dan. * As a Chinese surname, Romanized from 曾, see Zeng. * As a Vietnamese surname Đôn, possibly from Chinese 敦, see Dun.

  1. derived from 敦

Definitions

  1. A university professor, particularly one at Oxford or Cambridge.

    • No one feeds at the high table except the dons and the gentlemen-commoners, who are undergraduates in velvet caps and silk gowns[.]

  2. An employee of a university residence who lives among the student residents.

  3. A mafia boss, primarily for Italian or Italian American bosses.

  4. ›+ 13 more definitions

    1. A (usually Spanish or Italian) title of respect to a man, especially a lord or nobleman.

      • Wo often of an evening go and hear the band in the square opposite the captin-giniral’s palace—it is here were the dons and donnas and all the fashionables assemble, and I must say it’s amusing.

    2. Any man, bloke, dude.

      • I’m confused like who’s this don .22 bells and that who’s on

    3. To put on clothing

      To put on clothing; to dress (oneself) in an article of personal attire.

      • To don one's clothes.
      • Having donned our PPE, we walk through the site to the prefab that controls access to the tunnel.

    4. A diminutive of the male given names Donald or Gordon.

      • The bill, which lawmakers approved in a 211-206 vote, now moves to the Republican-led Senate for consideration. One Republican, Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska, voted with Democrats Thursday against the measure.

    5. A river, the fifth-longest in Europe, in Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov…

      A river, the fifth-longest in Europe, in Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia, flowing 1160 miles to the Sea of Azov.

      • Thence they marched againſt Orna, a Port Towne on the Riuer Don, where were many Gazarians, Alanians, Ruſſians, and Saracens, which he drowned with the Riuer running through the Citie, turning it out of the chanell.

    6. A river in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, United Kingdom, flowing 62 miles to the…

      A river in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, United Kingdom, flowing 62 miles to the North Sea at Aberdeen.

    7. A river in South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, on which Doncaster is situated.

    8. A minor river in Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom, which joins the Tyne at Jarrow.

    9. A river in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, named after the River Don in Yorkshire.

    10. A locality in the City of Devonport, Tasmania, Australia.

    11. A surname.

    12. dissolved organic nitrogen

    13. Abbreviation of deoxynivalenol, a toxic byproduct of Fusarium head blight of barley.

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Derived

don hand, donnish, donnism, donny, donship

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA