don:

[plural: 'dons'; female: donna (entry after next)]

Oxford University dons

a title of respect used before a man’s first name in Spanish speaking countries (like Mr. or Sir);

(in British usage) a university teacher;

(in the present common usage) a leader of an organised crime family (leader of a gang of criminals),

Don Quxiote

e.g.

‘Underworld’, a novel written in 1997 by Don DeLillo, was a best-seller fiction.

The 16th century Spanish novel ‘Don Quixote’ written by Miguel de Cervantes is popular not only in Spain but also in several other countries all over the world.

Dr Peter Millican, a philosophy don at Hertford College, Oxford, has devised a computer software program that can detect when written works are by the same author by comparing favourite words and phrases.

New Delhi: In a major breakthrough, CBI has secured extradition of underworld don and one of the main accused in 1993 Mumbai serial blasts Abu Salem from Portugal.

Don DiLillo

Note 1: ‘Don’, always with a capital ‘D’, is often found in the names of people, e.g. Don Lucia, Don Bivens, Don Rietz, etc. For an informative article on the use of this word as a name, please click here & click here.
Note 2: The word ‘don’ as a verb is used to mean ‘to put on clothes or to dress in some special clothes’, e.g. “On his birthday, the prince donned his favourite traditional costumes.”

Underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, India

For an item of news about Cambridge dons, please click here and for an item of news on the underworld dons in India, please click here. For a blog post of a student home about its ‘dons’, please click here.

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