noun
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A title formerly borne by member of the high nobility of Portugal and Brazil
noun
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A university professor, particularly one at Oxford or Cambridge.
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An employee of a university residence who lives among the student residents.
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A mafia boss.
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Any man, bloke, dude.
verb
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(clothing) To put on, to dress in.
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To don one's clothes.
Examples of dons in a Sentence
The Italian general would have preferred to wait until his intervention was requested Opcra dons in by both pretenders to the Abyssinian throne.
The list follows the forms of the Greek language so closely that a category emerges appropriated to the use of the perfect tense of the middle voice to express the relation of the subject to a garb that it dons.
Accordingly, able re/a- knowledge is concerned either with (a) relations of dons.
Aberdeen Football Club, known as the Dons, was formed in 1903 when the original club amalgamated with Victoria United and Orion.
It's a Sherlock Holmes homage as Skuld dons the deerstalker to hunt down a pesky thief.
They are taught by resident staff and university dons.
But was he not concerned about the kind of firm he joined when the ' Mafia dons ' went to work?
Click to open full item back to top of page Tuesday 06 June 2006 dons trust news Can the World Cup get more exciting?
On a very foggy morning, the Dons started very well!
Stubbornly embracing the American dream, desperate to be a hero, George dons superhero garb and performs good deeds.
For the first of three opening games against Ryman Premier newcomers the Dons took on newly relegated local rivals Carshalton Athletic at Colston Avenue.
Fisher pressed, but their pretty passing was confined to midfield as the Dons ' back four stood resolute.
Every morning, he dons his pinstripe suit and bowler hat and sets off to catch the train to work.
Port Vale, MK Dons, Colchester and Blackpool are unfancied 40-1 shots, with Chesterfield rank outsiders at 66-1.
Tingewick has this funny effect on people months before anyone dons a sequin dress.
The Dons appealed for a foul, but the referee was unmoved by the half-hearted appeals.
He dons a leather neck cord, it has been decorated with alternating colored beads and vampire fangs.
Who would have known that everyone's favorite pudgy plumber was also a M.D. Mario dons the white coat and all in this game as you manuever around medicine capsules of different colors to clear out the viruses found on the screen.
This is especially true when she dons a bikini!
Once again, she dons a black bikini top that highlights her softly tanned upper body.
Even so, the young star still manages to turn heads whenever she dons a bikini.
He's ugly, bitter, green and hard to miss, especially when he dons his Santa suit.
This may only be a mask that this air sign dons because underneath she may be painfully shy.
Newcomer Brandon Routh dons the blue tights, but most of us are stoked to see Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor.
Rowe meets the staff, dons the necessary outfits and equipment, and gets involved in every step of the process, performing as much of the job as he can.
It is a Victorian kind of world, and Lyra is (she thinks) an orphan, growing up under the almost non-existent control of various Oxford dons, with a 'guardian' who oversees her from afar.
This is the occation for one of the most impressive 'cat fights' in film history, as Ripley dons a mechanical 'loadlifter' (a kind of wearable backhoe) to do hand-to-hand combat.