don
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
don1
▶noun
- 1 Brit. a university teacher, especially a senior member of a college at Oxford or Cambridge.
- 2 (Don) a Spanish title prefixed to a male forename.
■ N. Amer. informal a high-ranking member of the Mafia.
– origin C16: from Sp., from L. dominus ‘lord, master’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
don2
▶verb (dons, donning, donned) put on (an item of clothing).
'don' also found in these Oxford entries:
bloody
- care
- come
- crowd
- deceive
- dick
- do
- doff
- Dom
- Don Juan
- donna
- donnish
- don't
- double negative
- follow
- grudge
- hold
- implicature
- innit
- lay
- leg
- monopoly
- one
- play
- quixotic
- raise
- right
- rot
- show
- soft
- sort
- stock
- therapize
- tilt
- tough
- trouble
- word
