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nounPlural dons dɒndɑn 1British A university teacher, especially a senior member of a college at Oxford or Cambridge. Example sentencesExamples - He found the college stuffed with dons hard in pursuit of their own lines of consultancy with industry.
- The indication that Oxford might have to consider implementing similar measures has been greeted with caution by University officials, dons, and students alike.
- It was largely built in the second part of the nineteenth century when the university's dons were allowed to marry for the first time.
- Students, dons and members of the public gathered outside Balliol College in the centre of the city.
- Having enjoyed Harvard so much, she has even thought of becoming a Cambridge don.
- The hall was packed with around 400 undergraduates, while heads of colleges, or dons, sat on the front benches as they do in Parliament.
- In a colourful ceremony the scholars, who were robed and gowned in full academic dress, were presented with their award by the president in front of the deans, doctors and dons of the college.
- There was a furore amongst senior conservative dons, outraged at the possibility that they might assist a former youth offender and performance poet.
- Opinion polls showed that most students supported him in his clashes with senior dons who were trying to force him out.
- As a don at the local university, he reviewed regularly for the Glasgow Herald.
- The club put me up at the house of ‘the Professor’ - a don of sorts at the university, and something of a legend in German basketball.
- He worked easily with the many newcomers into his department, most of them university dons.
- Most interesting of all, Oxford don JRR Tolkien stayed at the college in the 1940s while his eldest son was studying for the priesthood.
- I did not have the rich reading repertoires of my fellow English dons and I had a much stronger social-political awareness than most of them.
- Oxford dons see it as the best solution to the funding crisis afflicting Britain's universities.
- Some evenings he chose to dine with the other dons and professors at high table in college.
- He's a neurophysiologist and a don at Magdalen College, and I always felt I was stupid because I couldn't get anything like the same results as him.
- Above all, dons represent the university and must abide by its regulations.
- Tall, bespectacled, fleshy, although in reasonably good shape, he has the self-effacing air of an old-fashioned university don.
- Oxford dons - furious with the student hacks' actions - had already instigated disciplinary proceedings.
Synonyms university teacher, (university) lecturer, fellow, professor, reader, lector, college tutor, academic, scholar informal egghead (dons) British senior common room 2A Spanish title prefixed to a male forename. Example sentencesExamples - Others see him as a Don Quixote-like noble, if naive, figure who sacrificed his political career rather than abandon his aspiration.
- Carmen pleads ‘Let me go’ to a Don José.
- There is probably room for a touch more earthiness, a little more hardness in her approach to a Don José who is always going to be putty in her hands.
- 2.1 A Spanish gentleman.
Example sentencesExamples - In the first half of the fifteenth century, Gutierre Diaz de Gámez wrote an account of the deeds of his lord don Pero Nino, count of Buelna.
- The Perdido Star eventually reaches Cuba, where young Jack's parents are murdered by the requisite villainous Spanish don.
- She imagined a Spanish don living here in the 1800s, and building a stately hacienda in stages as his family grew.
- 2.2North American informal A high-ranking member of the Mafia.
Example sentencesExamples - It's the equivalent of a Mafia don writing the lead article in some law enforcement journal.
- Help to the French lady comes in the form of a carefree auto driver who wants to flee the town to escape gambling dons who are after him to recover their money.
- An early brush with fame - and the big dons - came when she was the deputy commissioner of police of Mumbai ports from 1987 to 1991.
- The machine was usually dominated by a single party leader who behaved in many respects like a mafia don.
- If anything justifies the resistance, it is finding out that the people trying to run your country are little better than Mafia dons.
- That's the same maximum sentence a mafia don gets for threatening a witness.
- It's a ‘sins of the fathers are visited upon the sons’ tale about the privileged scions of a group of Mafia dons who find it impossible to make it in the straight world of New York by virtue of their last names.
- Instead, like a mafia don in a witness protection program, he will have to leave his current life and construct a brand new one.
- Empower the party groups and the youth groups financially and otherwise to work to mobilise communities and awake them to collective action to reclaim control from the dons.
- She is well known across Karnataka as a firebrand journalist, doing scoops on underworld dons and hard-hitting interviews with politicians.
- It may not be the first time he will be playing an underworld don, but it will probably be a first at trying the ‘over the top’ emotions that the movie seems to carry.
- If you want to do business in those areas, you have to pay tribute to the dons.
- While dons in the 1970's films were larger-than-life, the 21st century don has risen from the streets and is rougher round the edges.
- But the don is immediately shown as a gentle person sniffing a flower, remarking about the undertaker being mistaken about them being murders.
- With the storyline of the film revolving round the nexus between drug mafia and underworld dons, the mood of the film is certainly reflected in the music, it has been claimed.
- While the attempt to free it from the clutches of underworld dons and whimsical financiers continues, more and more producers and directors are turning to banks and other credible public financing institutions for funds.
- Will he team up with an underworld don to finish off another?
- For the cash-strapped film industry, getting some amount of clean financing from the corporate sector is a whole lot better than dealing with dubious underworld dons.
- This is as good, or bad, as the Mafia taking out a ‘contract’ on the head of a targeted rival amongst the dons.
- The final straw was when she was sent to kill a mafia don.
Derivatives noun It was my intention from an early age to aspire to a quiet life of letters, an Oxford donship, if possible, with the occasional slim volume privately printed every couple of years. Example sentencesExamples - Over 20,000 prizes are available, ranging from $100 tuition discounts to full access to several academic chairs, grants and donships.
- To do this, a position was designed that combines the attractive features of the donship without the features of the floor senior position.
- Victoria College has recently changed its policy regarding donships, now allowing third-years to apply.
Origin Early 16th century (in sense 2): from Spanish, from Latin dominus 'lord, master'. Rhymes aide-de-camp, aides-de-camp, anon, Asunción, au courant, begone, Bonn, bon vivant, Caen, Canton, Carcassonne, Ceylon, chaconne, chateaubriand, ci-devant, Colón, colon, Concepción, con (US conn), cretonne, Duchamp, Evonne, foregone, fromage blanc, Gabon, Garonne, gone, guenon, hereupon, Inchon, Jean, john, Jon, Le Mans, León, Luzon, Mont Blanc, Narbonne, odds-on, on, outgone, outshone, Perón, phon, piñon, Pinot Blanc, plafond, Ramón, Saigon, Saint-Saëns, Sand, Schwann, scone, shone, side-on, sine qua non, Sorbonne, spot-on, swan, thereon, thereupon, ton, Toulon, undergone, upon, Villon, wan, whereon, whereupon, won, wonton, yon, Yvonne verbdonned, dons, donning dɒndɑn [with object]Put on (an item of clothing) in the dressing room the players donned their football shirts Example sentencesExamples - By growing out his beard and donning a wig, he took on a remarkable physical resemblance to Ludwig.
- No amount of accessorising can bring you out of the style challenge you would be confronted with by donning these in daylight.
- At the last minute, Armstrong considered donning his helmet to fend off any bottles or rocks.
- I woke up bright and early on my first morning, rising with the LA sun and donning my jogging gear from a trip to Venice beach.
- He only took up donning the white overcoat and cap by chance, and after a less than auspicious start he has grown into the role.
- The other two had donned red jerseys, with dashes of gold and blue along the sleeves.
- It is believed some gangs have posed as workmen to disguise themselves, donning donkey jackets and carrying tools.
- I embarked on a flight to the United States donning the guise of a student.
- At his urging, I donned protective clothing and headed off in search of this tragic new affliction.
- I don't mind donning my sou'westers for my daily medicine walk but cycling in the rain doesn't appeal at all.
- Most fans are content with donning a replica shirt and attending the odd game.
- But there is also a time for donning the hard hats and digging in.
- At this rate we'll be donning scarves and gloves on the big day.
- Once each day, you leave the park, every time with a greater reluctance for donning your shirt.
- He also joked to the assembled dignitaries that he would be donning the riot gear before visiting the police authority in future.
- But he was nevertheless disgruntled that he himself would not be donning the shirt.
- His performances since donning the captain's armband have been wonderful and he is, like it or not, a sporting and cultural icon.
- An Alsatian dog proved he really was man's best friend, by donning a bow-tie and acting as best man at his owners' wedding.
- So if you want, you can have your child donning the latest in designer rips, paint splashes and oily patches.
- He even donned his special summer shirt and shorts in celebration as the sun came out.
Synonyms put on, get dressed in, dress (oneself) in, pull on, climb into, get into, fling on, throw on, slip into, slip on, change into, rig oneself out in, clothe oneself in, array oneself in, deck oneself out in, accoutre oneself in, put round one's shoulders, put on one's head informal tog oneself up/out in, doll oneself up in, pour oneself into
Origin Late Middle English: contraction of do on. Compare with doff. proper noundɒndɑn 1A river in Russia which rises near Tula, south-east of Moscow, and flows for a distance of 1,958 km (1,224 miles) to the Sea of Azov. 2A river in Scotland which rises in the Grampians and flows 131 km (82 miles) eastwards to the North Sea at Aberdeen. 3A river in northern England which rises in the Pennines and flows 112 km (70 miles) eastwards to join the Ouse shortly before it, in turn, joins the Humber.
noundändɑn 1A Spanish title prefixed to a male forename. Example sentencesExamples - There is probably room for a touch more earthiness, a little more hardness in her approach to a Don José who is always going to be putty in her hands.
- Carmen pleads ‘Let me go’ to a Don José.
- Others see him as a Don Quixote-like noble, if naive, figure who sacrificed his political career rather than abandon his aspiration.
- 1.1 A Spanish gentleman; a Spaniard.
Example sentencesExamples - She imagined a Spanish don living here in the 1800s, and building a stately hacienda in stages as his family grew.
- The Perdido Star eventually reaches Cuba, where young Jack's parents are murdered by the requisite villainous Spanish don.
- In the first half of the fifteenth century, Gutierre Diaz de Gámez wrote an account of the deeds of his lord don Pero Nino, count of Buelna.
- 1.2North American informal A high-ranking member of the Mafia.
Example sentencesExamples - It's a ‘sins of the fathers are visited upon the sons’ tale about the privileged scions of a group of Mafia dons who find it impossible to make it in the straight world of New York by virtue of their last names.
- Empower the party groups and the youth groups financially and otherwise to work to mobilise communities and awake them to collective action to reclaim control from the dons.
- Will he team up with an underworld don to finish off another?
- That's the same maximum sentence a mafia don gets for threatening a witness.
- The final straw was when she was sent to kill a mafia don.
- While the attempt to free it from the clutches of underworld dons and whimsical financiers continues, more and more producers and directors are turning to banks and other credible public financing institutions for funds.
- But the don is immediately shown as a gentle person sniffing a flower, remarking about the undertaker being mistaken about them being murders.
- This is as good, or bad, as the Mafia taking out a ‘contract’ on the head of a targeted rival amongst the dons.
- If anything justifies the resistance, it is finding out that the people trying to run your country are little better than Mafia dons.
- An early brush with fame - and the big dons - came when she was the deputy commissioner of police of Mumbai ports from 1987 to 1991.
- Help to the French lady comes in the form of a carefree auto driver who wants to flee the town to escape gambling dons who are after him to recover their money.
- It's the equivalent of a Mafia don writing the lead article in some law enforcement journal.
- While dons in the 1970's films were larger-than-life, the 21st century don has risen from the streets and is rougher round the edges.
- She is well known across Karnataka as a firebrand journalist, doing scoops on underworld dons and hard-hitting interviews with politicians.
- If you want to do business in those areas, you have to pay tribute to the dons.
- The machine was usually dominated by a single party leader who behaved in many respects like a mafia don.
- It may not be the first time he will be playing an underworld don, but it will probably be a first at trying the ‘over the top’ emotions that the movie seems to carry.
- With the storyline of the film revolving round the nexus between drug mafia and underworld dons, the mood of the film is certainly reflected in the music, it has been claimed.
- Instead, like a mafia don in a witness protection program, he will have to leave his current life and construct a brand new one.
- For the cash-strapped film industry, getting some amount of clean financing from the corporate sector is a whole lot better than dealing with dubious underworld dons.
2A university teacher, especially a senior member of a college at Oxford or Cambridge. Example sentencesExamples - I did not have the rich reading repertoires of my fellow English dons and I had a much stronger social-political awareness than most of them.
- Oxford dons see it as the best solution to the funding crisis afflicting Britain's universities.
- Above all, dons represent the university and must abide by its regulations.
- He found the college stuffed with dons hard in pursuit of their own lines of consultancy with industry.
- Most interesting of all, Oxford don JRR Tolkien stayed at the college in the 1940s while his eldest son was studying for the priesthood.
- Having enjoyed Harvard so much, she has even thought of becoming a Cambridge don.
- Students, dons and members of the public gathered outside Balliol College in the centre of the city.
- Opinion polls showed that most students supported him in his clashes with senior dons who were trying to force him out.
- Tall, bespectacled, fleshy, although in reasonably good shape, he has the self-effacing air of an old-fashioned university don.
- In a colourful ceremony the scholars, who were robed and gowned in full academic dress, were presented with their award by the president in front of the deans, doctors and dons of the college.
- Oxford dons - furious with the student hacks' actions - had already instigated disciplinary proceedings.
- The club put me up at the house of ‘the Professor’ - a don of sorts at the university, and something of a legend in German basketball.
- He's a neurophysiologist and a don at Magdalen College, and I always felt I was stupid because I couldn't get anything like the same results as him.
- Some evenings he chose to dine with the other dons and professors at high table in college.
- There was a furore amongst senior conservative dons, outraged at the possibility that they might assist a former youth offender and performance poet.
- It was largely built in the second part of the nineteenth century when the university's dons were allowed to marry for the first time.
- The hall was packed with around 400 undergraduates, while heads of colleges, or dons, sat on the front benches as they do in Parliament.
- The indication that Oxford might have to consider implementing similar measures has been greeted with caution by University officials, dons, and students alike.
- He worked easily with the many newcomers into his department, most of them university dons.
- As a don at the local university, he reviewed regularly for the Glasgow Herald.
Synonyms university teacher, lecturer, university lecturer, fellow, professor, reader, lector, college tutor, academic, scholar
Origin Early 16th century (in don (sense 2 of the noun)): from Spanish, from Latin dominus ‘lord, master’. verbdɑndän [with object]Put on (an item of clothing) in the locker room the players donned their football jerseys Example sentencesExamples - It is believed some gangs have posed as workmen to disguise themselves, donning donkey jackets and carrying tools.
- An Alsatian dog proved he really was man's best friend, by donning a bow-tie and acting as best man at his owners' wedding.
- So if you want, you can have your child donning the latest in designer rips, paint splashes and oily patches.
- Most fans are content with donning a replica shirt and attending the odd game.
- I don't mind donning my sou'westers for my daily medicine walk but cycling in the rain doesn't appeal at all.
- I embarked on a flight to the United States donning the guise of a student.
- He only took up donning the white overcoat and cap by chance, and after a less than auspicious start he has grown into the role.
- At his urging, I donned protective clothing and headed off in search of this tragic new affliction.
- By growing out his beard and donning a wig, he took on a remarkable physical resemblance to Ludwig.
- No amount of accessorising can bring you out of the style challenge you would be confronted with by donning these in daylight.
- But there is also a time for donning the hard hats and digging in.
- I woke up bright and early on my first morning, rising with the LA sun and donning my jogging gear from a trip to Venice beach.
- Once each day, you leave the park, every time with a greater reluctance for donning your shirt.
- He even donned his special summer shirt and shorts in celebration as the sun came out.
- His performances since donning the captain's armband have been wonderful and he is, like it or not, a sporting and cultural icon.
- But he was nevertheless disgruntled that he himself would not be donning the shirt.
- At this rate we'll be donning scarves and gloves on the big day.
- The other two had donned red jerseys, with dashes of gold and blue along the sleeves.
- He also joked to the assembled dignitaries that he would be donning the riot gear before visiting the police authority in future.
- At the last minute, Armstrong considered donning his helmet to fend off any bottles or rocks.
Synonyms put on, get dressed in, dress in, dress oneself in, pull on, climb into, get into, fling on, throw on, slip into, slip on, change into, rig oneself out in, clothe oneself in, array oneself in, deck oneself out in, accoutre oneself in, put round one's shoulders, put on one's head
Origin Late Middle English: contraction of do on. Compare with doff. proper noundɑndän 1A river in Russia that rises near Tula, southeast of Moscow, and flows for 1,224 miles (1,958 km) to the Sea of Azov. 2A river in Scotland that rises in the Grampian Mountains and flows east for 82 miles (131 km) to the North Sea at Aberdeen. 3A river in northern England that rises in the Pennine Hills and flows east for 70 miles (112 km) to join the Ouse River shortly before it, in turn, joins the Humber River.
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