Don Juan:

(plural: ‘Don Juans‘; pronunciation: the word ‘Juan’ is said with a sound similar to ‘wahn’ — for the two different ways of pronouncing this name, please click here)

any man who is good at making women love and have sex with him {named after a 14th century legendary Spanish noble man who was good at making women love and have sex with him (seducing women)},

‘Don Juan’ is also used in a negative connotation (negative sense) to refer to a man without morals — a womanizer or debauchee.

a Don Juan with his many lovers

e.g.

Young Tom believes that he’s a Don Juan, and all the girls and women fall for him because he’s smarter than any boy in the neighbourhood.

Liz had been in love with Chris for a year before she realised that he was a Don Juan who ran after every woman he laid his eyes on.

It is believed that most women that fall for Don Juans are the recent widows or women whose husbands spend more nights at their poker clubs than at home with their wives!

For an article that tells the origin of Don Juan, please click here. For an article about how to become a Don Juan, please click here and for an interesting story of a woman who refuses to date a Don Juan, please click here.

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