| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Don.[Websters]
2. To be robed or vested. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have dressed or rigged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have mastered, lorded or tutored. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have covered or enrolled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have invested, draped or besieged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have dabbed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have apparelled, togged or geared.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb don.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "DONNED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Specialty Definition: don
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] To put on; to invest with.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Aging | Director of Nursing. (references) | ||
| Environment | 1: Dissolved organic nitrogen. (references) | 2: Document number. (references) | |
| Geography | 1: Don is geographically located in Australia. Its features include a farm (a tract of land with associated buildings devoted to agriculture), and a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 20.016667 degrees South latitude and 148.2 degrees East longitude. (references) | 2: Don is geographically located in Benin. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 7.016667 degrees North latitude and 2.033333 degrees East longitude. (references) | 3: Don is geographically located in Burkina. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 11.016667 degrees North latitude and 1.933333 degrees West longitude. (references) | 4: Don is geographically located in Cameroon. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 4.9 degrees North latitude and 12 degrees East longitude. (references) | 5: Don is geographically located in Central African Republic. Its features include a stream (a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land). Its geographic coordinates are 7.766667 degrees North latitude and 17.55 degrees East longitude. (references) | 6: Don is geographically located in Chad. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 7.883333 degrees North latitude and 16.5 degrees East longitude. (references) | 7: Don is geographically located in France. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work), and a stream (a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land). Its geographic coordinates are 47.666667 degrees North latitude and 1.933333 degrees West longitude. (references) | 8: Don is geographically located in Guinea. Its features include a mountain (an elevation standing high above the surrounding area with small summit area, steep slopes and local relief of 300m or more). Its geographic coordinates are 7.65 degrees North latitude and 8.45 degrees West longitude. (references) | 9: Don is geographically located in India. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 26.166667 degrees North latitude and 84.15 degrees East longitude. (references) | 10: Don is geographically located in Mali. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 12.133333 degrees North latitude and 6.583333 degrees West longitude. (references) | 11: Don is geographically located in Mexico. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work), and a railroad station (a facility comprising ticket office, platforms, etc. for loading and unloading train passengers and freight). Its geographic coordinates are 26.416667 degrees North latitude and 109.016667 degrees West longitude. (references) | 12: Don is geographically located in Republic of the Congo. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 2.067222 degrees North latitude and 13.930278 degrees East longitude. (references) | 13: Don is geographically located in Russia. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work), a railroad station (a facility comprising ticket office, platforms, etc. for loading and unloading train passengers and freight), and a stream (a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land). Its geographic coordinates are 47.060833 degrees North latitude and 39.2875 degrees East longitude. (references) | 14: Don is geographically located in Spain. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 43.066667 degrees North latitude and 6.85 degrees West longitude. (references) | 15: Don is geographically located in Zimbabwe. Its features include a mine(s) (a site where mineral ores are extracted from the ground by excavating surface pits and subterranean passages). Its geographic coordinates are 18.933333 degrees South latitude and 32.466667 degrees East longitude. (references) |
| Literature | 1: "Then up he rose, and donned his clothes, 2: And dupp'd the chamber door." 3: Don A man of mark, an aristocrat. At the universities the masters, fellows, and noblemen are termed dons. (Spanish.) 4: Don is do-on, as "Don your bonnet." (See Doff, Dup .) 5: Shakespeare: Hamlet, iv. 5. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Military | Department of the Navy. (references) | ||
| Security | Date of Notice. (references) | ||
| Technology | Department of Navy. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Etymology 1] A diminutive of the male given name Donald or Gordon. (references) | 2: [Etymology 2] River in European Russia, flowing 1200 mile to the Sea of Azov. (references) | 3: [Etymology 3] River in Scotland, flowing 62 mile to the North Sea. (references) | 4: [Noun] A mafia boss. (references) | 5: [Noun] A university professor, particularly one at Oxford or Cambridge. (references) | 6: [Verb] To put on (clothes). (references) |
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Common Expressions: don
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Aeroflot Don | Aeroflot Don (Joint Stock Aviation Company Donavia) is an airline based in Rostov, Russia. It operates a scheduled passenger network and passenger and cargo charters to the Middle East. Its main bases are Rostov Airport (ROV), Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow and Vnukovo Airport, Moscow. (references) | ||
| Amphoe Don Sak | Don Sak (Thai: ดอนสัก) is a town and district in Eastern Surat Thani Province. The ferry port to Samui Island is located in the district. (references) | ||
| And Quiet Flows the Don | And Quiet Flows the Don (Tikhii Don) (1934) is the first part of the great Don epic written by Mikhail Sholokhov. (references) | ||
| David Don | David Don (21 December 1799 - 15 December 1841) was an English botanist, Professor of Botany at King's College, London from 1836-1841, and librarian at the Linnean Society of London from 1822-1841. (references) | ||
| Denis O'Conor Don | Denis O Conor Donn (1912-July 10, 2000) was an Irish genealogist. (references) | ||
| Don A. Adams | Don A. Adams is the current president of the Watch Tower Society, the most important of the Legal instruments of Jehovah's Witnesses. (references) | ||
| Don Aase | Donald William Aase (born September 8, 1954 in Orange, California, USA - ) was a pitcher who played from 13 years from 1977 to 1990. He played for the Boston Red Sox, California Angels and Baltimore Orioles all of the American League and the New York Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers both of the National League. (references) | ||
| Don Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince di Civitella-Cesi | Don Alessandro Torlonia (7 December 1911 - 1 May 1986) was the 5th Prince of Civitella-Cesi. He was the son of Prince Don Marino Torlonia, 4th prínce of Civitella-Cesi and of the American aristocrat Mary Elsie Moore, daughter of the American businessman Charles Arthur Moore, a rich shipping broker and hardware manufacturer in Connecticut, and of Kate Moore Campbell, who was the subject of many stories in European society. (When she died, one said, "she left the world as she might have left the Ritz, with little tips for everyone".). He was born in Rome and died in the Palazzo Torlonia, Rome. (references) | ||
| Don Alias | Don Alias (b. December 25, 1939) is a jazz percussionist. (references) | ||
| Don Alvaro Domecq y Diez | Don Alvaro Domecq y Diez (1917-2005) was born into the Spanish aristocratic Sherry Family. He distinguished himself as a fighter pilot in the Spanish Civil War on Francisco Franco's side, and later re-introduced bullfighting on horseback to Spain. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: don
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Don Giovanni | Literature | Mozart's best opera. (See Don Juan .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Don jem | Health | Marijuana. (references) | |
| Don Juan | Literature | 1: A native of Seville, son of Don José and Donna Inez, a blue-stocking. When Juan was sixteen years old he got into trouble with Donna Julia, and was sent by his mother, then a widow, on his travels. His adventures form the story of the poem, which is incomplete. (Byron: Don Juan.) 2: A Don Juan. A libertine of the aristocratic class. The original of this character was Don Juan Tenorio of Seville, who lived in the fourteenth century. The traditions concerning him have been dramatised by Triso de Molina; thence passed into Italy and France. Glück has a musical ballet of Don Juan, and Mozart has immortalised the character in his opera of Don Giovanni (1787). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Don King's operation | Labor | The mystic art of using the so-called divining rod for the location of ground water. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| DON method | Chemical Industry | A laboratory method for predicting road antiknock performance of gasolines, which simulates fuel performance under conditions of maldistribution in a multi-cylinder engine. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Don Quixote | Literature | 1: A Don Quixote. A dreamy, unpractical man, with a "bee in his bonnet." 2: (2 syl.). A gaunt country gentleman of La Mancha, gentle and dignified, affectionate and simple-minded, but so crazed by reading books of knight-errantry that he believes himself called upon to redress the wrongs of the whole world, and actually goes forth to avenge the oppressed and run a tilt with their oppressors. The word Quixote means The cuish-armed. (See Quixotic.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: don
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| DON | English | Deuterium-moderated,Organi-cooled,Natural-uranium fueled reactor | N/A | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | Top | |||
