Don Meaning and Definition

Word: Don

How to pronounce: dɒn

Noun

Definitions:

1. A Spanish title prefixed to a male forename.A Spanish gentleman; a Spaniard.A high-ranking member of the Mafia.

Example sentences: "Carmen pleads ‘Let me go’ to a Don José."

2. A university teacher, especially a senior member of a college at Oxford or Cambridge.

Example sentences: "He worked easily with the many newcomers into his department, most of them university dons."

Transitive verb

Definitions:

1. Put on (an item of clothing)

Example sentences: "In the locker room the players donned their football jerseys"

Proper noun

Definitions:

1. A river in Russia that rises near Tula, southeast of Moscow, and flows for 1,224 miles (1,958 km) to the Sea of Azov.

2. A river in Scotland that rises in the Grampian Mountains and flows east for 82 miles (131 km) to the North Sea at Aberdeen.

3. A river in northern England that rises in the Pennine Hills and flows east for 70 miles (112 km) to join the Ouse River shortly before it, in turn, joins the Humber River.

Synonyms:

put on

wear

throw

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Spanish: Don

German: Don

French: Don

Italian: Don

Turkish: Don