don
noun/dɒn/
/dɑːn/
- (British English) a teacher at a university, especially Oxford or Cambridge
- an Oxford don
- (often used as a title) a Spanish gentleman
- She imagined a Spanish don living here in the 1800s.
- Don Jose
- (informal) the leader of a group of criminals involved with the Mafia
Word Originnoun early 16th cent. (referring to a Spanish title which came before a male first name): from Spanish, from Latin dominus ‘lord, master’.
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