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doan

doan is the pronunciation spelling of don't.

Meaning of don't

Verb

don't

  1. Do not (negative auxiliary).
    • Don't you think mom's awfully busy today?
  2. (nonstandard) Does not.
    • Blessed are the poor in spirit, saies he. Blessed are those that mourn. He don't say, Blessed are those that rejoyce; or, Blessed are those that have the Assurance of Gods love; or, Blessed are those that are strong in Grace: No, but doest thou know a poor weak, Christian, a mourning soul like a...1649, William Bridge, edited by William Greenhill, John Yates, and William Adderley, The Works of William Bridge, Sometime Fellow of Emmanuel College in Cambridg: Now Preacher of the Word of God at...
  3. (African-American Vernacular) Used before an emphatic negative subject.
    • Don’t nobody care.

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Proper noun capitalized: Doan

Doan (plural Doans)

  1. A surname.
    • As central California floodwater swept away their SUV Monday morning, 5-year-old Kyle Doan, now missing, encouraged his mother. […] “He wasn’t quite processing what was going on,” Doan told CNN. “But he was so calm talking to my wife while they were still in the car.”2023 January 11, Ray Sanchez, “Missing 5-year-old boy was pulled from mother’s arms in California floodwater”, in CNN, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2023
    1. A surname from Irish. Alternative form of Doane.
    2. A surname from Vietnamese.

Forms of doan

Contraction
alternative formdoan'
Proper noun
pluralDoans

Origin of doan

Various origins: * Variant of Doane. * Borrowed from Vietnamese Đoàn. Doublet of Duan.

Questions about doan

What does doan mean?
Doan means a surname.
What is doan the pronunciation spelling of?
Doan is the pronunciation spelling of don't.
What part of speech is doan?
Doan is a proper noun.

Words near doan in the dictionary

  1. Doagh
  2. Doak
  3. Doaks
  4. Doamna
  5. Doamnei
  6. doan
  7. doan'
  8. Doane
  9. Doanes
  10. Doanie
  11. Doans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doan (page history and authors); Doan (page history and authors); don't (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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