noun
1.A high-ranking member of the Mafia.
‘While dons in the 1970’s films were larger-than-life, the 21st century don has risen from the streets and is rougher round the edges.’
‘If you want to do business in those areas, you have to pay tribute to the dons.’
2.A Spanish gentleman.
‘In the first half of the fifteenth century, Gutierre Diaz de Gámez wrote an account of the deeds of his lord don Pero Nino, count of Buelna.’
‘She imagined a Spanish don living here in the 1800s, and building a stately hacienda in stages as his family grew.’
3.A Spanish title prefixed to a male forename.
‘Carmen pleads ‘Let me go’ to a Don José.’
‘Others see him as a Don Quixote-like noble, if naive, figure who sacrificed his political career rather than abandon his aspiration.’
4.A university teacher, especially a senior member of a college at Oxford or Cambridge.
‘In a colourful ceremony the scholars, who were robed and gowned in full academic dress, were presented with their award by the president in front of the deans, doctors and dons of the college.’
‘The club put me up at the house of ‘the Professor’ - a don of sorts at the university, and something of a legend in German basketball.’
proper noun
1.A river in northern England which rises in the Pennines and flows 112 km (70 miles) eastwards to join the Ouse shortly before it, in turn, joins the Humber.
2.A river in Russia which rises near Tula, south-east of Moscow, and flows for a distance of 1,958 km (1,224 miles) to the Sea of Azov.
3.A river in Scotland which rises in the Grampians and flows 131 km (82 miles) eastwards to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
verb
1.Put on (an item of clothing)
‘in the dressing room the players donned their football shirts’
‘But he was nevertheless disgruntled that he himself would not be donning the shirt.’
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noun
‘While dons in the 1970’s films were larger-than-life, the 21st century don has risen from the streets and is rougher round the edges.’
