Noun: don
Gender: m
Hyphenation: don
| Singular m | don |
| Singular f | doña |
| Plural m | dones |
| Plural f | doñas |
Sample Sentences
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[Y] dime: don Luis Mejías ¿ha venido hoy? ([A]nd tell me: mister Luis Mejía, did he come today?) [1844, José Zorrilla, Don Juan Tenorio, lines 57–58:]
Nouns inflected like don
don,
Don,
Etymology
Inherited from Late Latin dom (“a courtesy title for monks and abbots”), from domnus (“master, sir”), from Classical Latin dominus, from domus (“a house”). See: Latin Nouns '
dominus'.
Verbs referencing "don"
English Nouns
don, Czech Nouns
don, Galician Nouns
don, Bulgarian Nouns
дон, Russian Nouns
дон.
Translations