don

IPA: dˈɑn

noun

  • A university professor, particularly one at Oxford or Cambridge.
  • An employee of a university residence who lives among the student residents.
  • A mafia boss.
  • (MLE) Any man, bloke, dude.
  • A diminutive of the male given names Donald or Gordon.
  • A river, the fifth-longest in Europe, in Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia. It flows 1870 kilometers (1160 miles) to the Sea of Azov.
  • A river in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, United Kingdom, flowing 62 miles to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
  • A river in South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, on which Doncaster is situated.
  • A minor river in Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom, which joins the Tyne at Jarrow.
  • A river in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, named after the River Don in Yorkshire.
  • (sciences) dissolved organic nitrogen
  • Abbreviation of deoxynivalenol., a toxic byproduct of Fusarium head blight of barley [vomitoxin]

verb

  • (transitive) To put on clothing; to dress (oneself) in an article of personal attire.
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Examples of "don" in Sentences

  • The title don't make since to me -- it don't match the cake -- something is wrong here.
  • Sometimes, the term don-spyi is used for the combination of an audio and a meaning/object category.
  • Just cause they took the numberings out in the title don't mean we get to # them however we want to.
  • It's seems that the vast majority of songs with the word "woman" in the title don't begin with that word.
  • Mr. Bush's low approval ratings at the end of his term don't help, said Leonard Pfeiffer IV, a Washington recruiter for nonprofits.
  • Chelsea's 12 goals in their last two Premier League games and theirstrong challenge for the title don't seem to have inspired the StamfordBridge faithful.
  • It's a handle; it doesn't mean the people who use the term don't see the moral difference between mobsters who commit heinous crimes and the lawyers who defend them.
  • Gingrich's attempt to hold Muslims collectively accountable for the actions of a relative handful of extremists doesn't simply reinforce al-Qaeda's narrative that America is at war with Islam as a whole; it skirts dangerously close to accepting the terrorist-friendly premise that "innocents" as we generally understand the term don't actually exist.

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