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A diminutive of the male given names Donald, Donovan, or Gordon.
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A river, the fifth-longest in Europe, in Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia, flowing 1160 miles to the Sea of Azov.
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A river in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, United Kingdom, flowing 62 miles to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
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A river in South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, on which Doncaster is situated.
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A minor river in Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom, which joins the Tyne at Jarrow.
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A river in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, named after the River Don in Yorkshire.
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A locality in the City of Devonport, Tasmania, Australia.
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A surname.
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noun
A university professor, particularly one at Oxford or Cambridge.
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Usage: UK
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noun
An employee of a university residence who lives among the student residents.
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Usage: Canada
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noun
A mafia boss, especially one who is Italian or Italian-American.
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noun
A (usually Spanish or Italian) title of respect to a man, especially a lord or nobleman.
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noun
Any man, bloke, dude.
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Usage: Multicultural-London-English
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Synonyms: donny
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noun
dissolved organic nitrogen
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Usage: uncountable
Topics: sciences
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noun
Abbreviation of deoxynivalenol, a toxic byproduct of Fusarium head blight of barley.
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Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
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verb
To put on clothing; to dress (oneself) in an article of personal attire.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Synonyms: put on, clothe, dight, enrobe, accouter, address, apparel, array, attire, beclothe, don, garment, dress, equip, invest, robe, slip on, vest
Antonyms: doff
noun
a Spanish courtesy title or form of address for men that is prefixed to the forename
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: title, title of respect, form of address
noun
a European river in southwestern Russia; flows into the Sea of Azov
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Synonyms: Don River
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Broader terms: river
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Celtic goddess; mother of Gwydion and Arianrhod; corresponds to Irish Danu
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noun
a Spanish gentleman or nobleman
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the head of an organized crime family
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Synonyms: father
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Broader terms: head, chief, top dog
noun
teacher at a university or college (especially at Cambridge or Oxford)
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Synonyms: preceptor
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Broader terms: teacher, instructor
verb
put clothing on one's body
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: wear, put on, get into, assume
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Broader terms: dress, get dressed
Narrower terms: hat, try on, try, scarf, slip on
History
Borrowed from Russian and Ukrainian Дон (Don). Known in Ancient Greece and Rome as Latin Tanais, Ancient Greek Τάναϊς (Tánaïs).
Probably from the common Celtic river name Proto-Celtic *Dānu << Proto-Indo-European *dhenh2-, found in many other river names such as Danube, and Dniester. Connected with the Welsh river goddess Dôn, whose name is from the same origin, though it could have been influenced by Welsh dawn (“gift”), Irish dán (“gift, offering”), Latin dōnum.
* 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.
From Latin dominus (“lord, head of household”), akin to Italian don, Sicilian don, Spanish don; from domus (“house”). Doublet of dom, domine, dominie, and dominus.
From Middle English don (“to put on”), from Old English dōn on; equivalent to do + on. Compare also doff, dup, dout.
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