don UK /dɒn/US /dɑn/verb 1noun 5forms 3 verb1 •to put on something to wear, such as a coat or a hatTo don one's clothes. noun5 •A (usually Spanish or Italian) title of respect to a man, especially a lord or nobleman.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. — 1845 •A mafia boss, especially one who is Italian or Italian-American. •(UK) A university professor, particularly one at Oxford or Cambridge.No one feeds at the high table except the dons and the gentlemen-commoners, who are undergraduates in velvet caps and silk gowns[.] — 1859 •(slang) Any man, bloke, dude.I’m confused like who’s this don .22 bells and that who’s on — 2017 •(Canada) An employee of a university residence who lives among the student residents. formsdonned · donning · dons
DON noun2 •dissolved organic nitrogen •Abbreviation of deoxynivalenol, a toxic byproduct of Fusarium head blight of barley.
Don UK /dɒn/US /dɑn/ noun1 •A river, the fifth-longest in Europe, in Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia, flowing 1160 miles to the Sea of Azov.