Usually means: Title for respected or powerful man.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. DON, Don, don: Merriam-Webster
  2. Don, Don, don, don: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. don, don: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. don: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Don, don: Vocabulary.com
  6. Don, Don, Don, Don, d'on, do'n, don, don: Wordnik
  7. don: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. DON, Don, don, don': Wiktionary
  9. don: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. don: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. don: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. DON, Don: Dictionary.com
  13. don (n.), don (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. don: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. DON, Don (Russia), Don (TV series), Don (character), Don (disambiguation), Don (film), Don (franchise), Don (given name), Don (honorific), Don (movie), Don (nickname), Don (river), Don (soundtrack), Don, The Don (Nas song), The Don (The View song), The Don: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Don: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. don: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Don: Rhymezone
  19. Don, don, don (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. don: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. DON: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Don: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. don: FreeDictionary.org
  24. don: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. don: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. don: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. don: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Warhammer Dwarven Word List (No longer online)
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  3. don-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. don: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  2. Don (film), Don (movie), don: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Don (film), Don (goddess), Don (movie), don: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Alzheimer's Association Medical Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Don (film), Don (honorific), Don (movie), don: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. DON: Custom License Plate Terms
  3. DON: Acronym Finder
  4. don: A Word A Day
  5. DON: Three Letter Words with definitions
  6. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  7. don: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. don, don, Don: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Don: Card Games

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A university professor, particularly one at Oxford or Cambridge.
noun:  An employee of a university residence who lives among the student residents.
noun:  A mafia boss.
noun:  A (usually Spanish or Italian) title of respect to a man, especially a lord or nobleman.
noun:  (MLE) Any man, bloke, dude.
verb:  (transitive) To put on clothing; to dress (oneself) in an article of personal attire.
noun:  A diminutive of the male given names Donald or Gordon.
noun:  A river, the fifth-longest in Europe, in Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia. It flows 1870 kilometers (1160 miles) to the Sea of Azov.
noun:  A river in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, United Kingdom, flowing 62 miles to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
noun:  A river in South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, on which Doncaster is situated.
noun:  A minor river in Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom, which joins the Tyne at Jarrow.
noun:  A river in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, named after the River Don in Yorkshire.
noun:  A surname
noun:  (sciences) dissolved organic nitrogen
noun:  Abbreviation of deoxynivalenol., a toxic byproduct of Fusarium head blight of barley [vomitoxin]

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