Donald
proper nounnouncommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈdɒn.əld//
- Canada//ˈdɑn.əld//
A male given name from Scottish Gaelic.
proper noun
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A male given name from Scottish Gaelic.
"Country?" replied Cuddie; "ou, the country's weel eneugh, and it werena that dour deevil, Calver'se, ( they ca' him Dundee now) that's stirring about yet in the Highlands, they say, with a' the Donalds, and Duncans, and Dugalds, that ever wore bottomless breeks, driving about wi' him, to set things asteer again, - - -
My friends call me Terry. My husband always used my full name, Teresa. He said it made him feel like he was married to a foreign woman. And I never called him Don or Donny or Donny Joe. I called him Donald from the first time we met.
Donald Duk never liked his name. He hates his name. He is not a duck. He is not a cartoon character. - - - "Only the Chinese are stupid enough to give a kid a stupid name like Donald Duk," Donald Duk says to himself.
The death of anti-feminist activist Phyllis Schlafly on Monday brought commiserations from the GOP ticket. Donald Trump tweeted that she was “truly great.” Mike Pence called her “the First Lady of the Conservative Movement.” Pence wasn’t exaggerating.
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A surname.
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A place name: An unincorporated community in Long County, Georgia, United States.
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A place name: An unincorporated community in the town of Pershing, Taylor County, Wisconsin, United States.
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A place name: A community regarded as a ghost town west of Golden, British Columbia, Canada.
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A place name: A town in the Shire of Buloke, western Victoria, Australia.
Etymology
Name of Scottish kings and an early saint, from Scottish Gaelic Dòmhnall and reinforced by Medieval Latin Donvaldus ~ Donaldus, from Old Irish Domnall, from Proto-Celtic *Dubnowalos (“prince / chief of the world”). Doublet of Domhnall.
noun
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Variant of Donald TrumpslangAbbreviation of Donald Trump (“a dump, an act of defecation”).
‘But I'm overdue for a Donald. You lot squabble amongst yourselves.’ He stole Catherine's newspaper on the way out.
Forms
- plural
- Donalds
Donald · A male given name from Scottish Gaelic.
donate · To make a donation; to give away something of value to…Donate · A surname from Spanish.donated · Having been given freely rather than purchased.