Don
A diminutive of the male given names Donald, Donovan, and GordonA diminutive of the male given names Donald, Donovan, and Gordon.
» Tom donned his party hat.
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8 sensesA diminutive of the male given names Donald, Donovan, and Gordon.
A river, the fifth-longest in Europe, in Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia, flowing 1160 miles to the Sea of Azov.
Don
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A river in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, United Kingdom, flowing 62 miles to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
A river in South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, on which Doncaster is situated.
A minor river in Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom, which joins the Tyne at Jarrow.
A river in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, named after the River Don in Yorkshire.
A locality in the City of Devonport, Tasmania, Australia.
A surname.
Examples
16 sentencesTom donned his party hat.
Tom and Mary donned their spacesuits.
deTom und Maria legten die Raumanzüge an. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
I donned a hat yesterday, because it was very cold.
He donned a shirt of mithril and picked up his mightly blade.
Ziri donned his park ranger cap and went out of the cabin.
Translations
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Origin
Borrowed from Russian and Ukrainian Дон (Don). Known in Ancient Greece and Rome as LatinBorrowed from Russian and Ukrainian Дон (Don). Known in Ancient Greece and Rome as Latin Tanais, Ancient Greek Τάναϊς (Tánaïs).
Probably from the common Celtic river name Proto-Celtic *Dānu << Proto-Indo-European *dʰenh₂-, found in many other river names such as Danube, and Dniester. Connected with the Welsh river goddess Dôn, whose name is from the same origin, though it could have been influenced by Welsh dawn (“gift”), Irish dán (“gift, offering”), Latin dōnum.
* As an English and Scottish surname, variant of Dunn.
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