don

noun

1. 1

   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[.]

   The truth is, unless a man can get the prestige and income of a Don and write donnish books, it’s hardly worth while for him to make a Greek and Latin machine of himself and be able to spin you out pages of the Greek dramatists at any verse you’ll give him as a cue.

   As he told me about the civilization he was creating on his desktop, he gazed up at the ceiling, humming fragments of a melody over and over. The music of his speech was pitched high, alternately poetic and pedantic, as if the soul of an Oxford don had been awkwardly reincarnated in the body of a boy.

2. 2

   An employee of a university residence who lives among the student residents.

3. 3

   A mafia boss, especially one who is Italian or Italian-American.

4. 4

   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.

   A sustained media campaign against American domination would require the support of just a few dot-com dons and donnas or hedge fund phenoms who want to head straight for structural change and skip the reformist way stations supported by philanthropic business leaders like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Ben Cohen, Gary Hirshberg, and the later[ ]Paul Newman’s family.

5. 5

   Any man, bloke, dude.

   I’m confused like who’s this don .22 bells and that who’s on

verb

1. 1

   To put on clothing; to dress (oneself) in an article of personal attire.

   To don one's clothes.

   Having donned our PPE, we walk through the site to the prefab that controls access to the tunnel.

verb

1. 1

   Variant of don'tAlternative form of don't

Forms

plural

dons

past tense

donned

past participle

donned

present participle

donning

third person singular

dons