Pronunciation Noun
don (plural dons)
- A university professor, particularly one at Oxford or Cambridge.
- An employee of a university residence who lives among the student residents.
- A mafia boss.
- Italian: don
- Russian: паха́н
don (dons, present participle donning; past and past participle donned)
Synonyms- (put on clothes) clothe, dight, enrobe; see also Thesaurus:clothe
- (put on clothes) doff
- French: mettre, enfiler, revêtir
- German: anziehen
- Italian: mettere, indossare, portare
- Portuguese: vestir
- Russian: надева́ть
Don
Pronunciation Proper noun
- A diminutive of the male given name Donald or Gordon.
- A river in European Russia, flowing 1200 miles to the Sea of Azov. Called Tanais in classical sources.
- German: Don
- Portuguese: Don
- Russian: Дон
- A river in Scotland, flowing 62 miles to the North Sea.
- A river in South Yorkshire, England, on which Doncaster is situated.
DON
Noun
don (uncountable)
- (science) dissolved organic nitrogen
- Abbreviation of deoxynivalenol., a toxic byproduct of Fusarium head blight of barley
- (deoxynivalenol) vomitoxin
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