Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Used as a courtesy title before the name of a man in a Spanish-speaking area.
- noun A head, tutor, or fellow at a college of Oxford or Cambridge.
- noun A college or university professor.
- noun The leader of an organized-crime family.
- noun Archaic An important personage.
- transitive verb To put on (clothing).
- transitive verb To assume or take on.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In sea-fishing, a buoy used to mark a fishing-ground.
- noun [capitalized] A title in Spain and Italy prefixed to a man's Christian name, like
Sir in Great Britain. - noun A gentleman; a man bearing the title of or addressed as “Don.”
- noun Any person of high importance or leading position: applied ironically to one giving himself airs of importance.
- noun In Great Britain, a fellow of a college, or any college authority.
- To put on; invest with.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To put on; to dress in; to invest one's self with.
- noun Sir; Mr; Signior; -- a title in Spain, formerly given to noblemen and gentlemen only, but now common to all classes.
- noun Univ. Cant A grand personage, or one making pretension to consequence; especially, the head of a college, or one of the fellows at the English universities.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
university professor, particularly one at Oxford or Cambridge. - noun A
mafia boss. - verb clothing to
put on , todress in
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Celtic goddess; mother of Gwydion and Arianrhod; corresponds to Irish Danu
- noun a Spanish courtesy title or form of address for men that is prefixed to the forename
- noun a Spanish gentleman or nobleman
- noun a European river in southwestern Russia; flows into the Sea of Azov
- noun the head of an organized crime family
- verb put clothing on one's body
- noun teacher at a university or college (especially at Cambridge or Oxford)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Mr. Bush's low approval ratings at the end of his term don't help, said Leonard Pfeiffer IV, a Washington recruiter for nonprofits.
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The title don't make since to me -- it don't match the cake -- something is wrong here.
By Show of Hands, Who Thinks We Should Call Child Protective Services? Jen 2008
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Sometimes, the term don-spyi is used for the combination of an audio and a meaning/object category.
The Distinction between Self-sufficiently Knowable and Imputedly Knowable Phenomena 2006
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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.
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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.
FrontPage Magazine Robert 2010
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It's seems that the vast majority of songs with the word "woman" in the title don't begin with that word.
slacktivist 2010
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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.
News & Politics 2010
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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.
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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.
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Just cause they took the numberings out in the title don't mean we get to # them however we want to.
stpeter commented on the word don
A contraction of "do on". Contrast with doff.
January 5, 2007
MaryW commented on the word don
Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (New York: Little Brown & Co., 2004), p. 82.May 30, 2016