dons

Noun

don (plural dons)

1. (UK) A university professor, particularly one at Oxford or Cambridge.
   • No one feeds at the high table except the dons and the gentlemen-commoners, who are undergraduates in velvet caps and silk gowns[.]1859–1861, [Thomas Hughes], chapter I, in Tom Brown at Oxford: […], part 1st, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1861, →OCLC, page 12
2. (Canada) An employee of a university residence who lives among the student residents.
3. A mafia boss, especially one who is Italian or Italian-American.
4. A (usually Spanish or Italian) title of respect to a man, especially a lord or nobleman.
   • Wo often of an evening go and hear the band in the square opposite the captin-giniral’s palace—it is here were the dons and donnas and all the fashionables assemble, and I must say it’s amusing.1845 September, Charles F. Ellerman, “Reminiscences of the Island of Cuba”, in Simmonds’s Colonial Magazine, volume VI, number 21, London, chapter VIII (Mrs. Smith seized with furor scribendi, writes...
5. (Multicultural-London-English) Any man, bloke, dude.
   • I’m confused like who’s this don
     .22 bells and that who’s on2017 October 31, Loski, “Olympic Chinging”, from 1:55

   Synonyms:

   donny

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Noun (1)

dom (plural doms)

1. A dominant in sadomasochistic sexual practices.
2. Domination.

Noun (2)

dom (plural doms or dons)

1. A title formerly borne by member of the high nobility of Portugal and Brazil.
2. A title anciently given to the pope, and later to other church dignitaries and some monastic orders.

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