Meaning of Don | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A university professor, particularly one at Oxford or Cambridge.
   UK
2. A diminutive of the male given names Donald or Gordon.
3. A river, the fifth-longest in Europe, in Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia, flowing 1160 miles to the Sea of Azov.
4. A river in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, United Kingdom, flowing 62 miles to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
5. A surname.
6. dissolved organic nitrogen
   uncountable
7. An employee of a university residence who lives among the student residents.
   Canada
8. A river in South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, on which Doncaster is situated.
9. Abbreviation of deoxynivalenol, a toxic byproduct of Fusarium head blight of barley.
   abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
10. A mafia boss, primarily for Italian or Italian American bosses.
11. A minor river in Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom, which joins the Tyne at Jarrow.
12. A (usually Spanish or Italian) title of respect to a man, especially a lord or nobleman.
13. A river in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, named after the River Don in Yorkshire.
14. Any man, bloke, dude.
    Multicultural-London-English
15. A locality in the City of Devonport, Tasmania, Australia.

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Examples

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

“The truth is, unless a man can get the prestige and income of a Don and write donnish books, it’s hardly worth while for him to make a Greek and Latin machine of himself and be able to spin you out pages of the Greek dramatists at any verse you’ll give him as a cue.”

“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.”

“Time was when the walker amid California vales could stop at some cool cellar hid in these western hills and pour from great flagons a shimmering glass of cool red wine. Nowadays, the hand of the law has stepped in and spoiled all this, because the hordes of wanderers who have come west have made of these resting places questionable resorts—made of them places that the Spanish dons and donnas never dreamed of.”

“A sustained media campaign against American domination would require the support of just a few dot-com dons and donnas or hedge fund phenoms who want to head straight for structural change and skip the reformist way stations supported by philanthropic business leaders like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Ben Cohen, Gary Hirshberg, and the later[ ]Paul Newman’s family.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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