don
English
/dɑn/, /dɒn/
noun
Definitions
- A university professor, particularly one at Oxford or Cambridge.
- An employee of a university residence who lives among the student residents.
- A mafia boss.
- (MLE) Any man, bloke, dude.
Etymology
Derived from Latin dominus (master, lord, head of household).
Origin
Latin
dominus
Gloss
master, lord, head of household
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
主
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- dominus English
- donnish English
- donnishly English
- donnishness English
- donnism English
- donship English
- redon English
- undonnish English
- *domincellus Latin
- *dominārium Latin
- *domnicellus Latin
- *domniārium Latin
- dom Latin
- dominicus Latin
- domino Latin
- dominor Latin
- dominus Latin
- dominō Latin
- domnus Latin
- vostra, voster Latin
- don Italian
- donno Italian
- dom French
- domino French
- don Spanish, Castilian
- *dem- Proto-Indo-European
- *dṓm Proto-Indo-European
- don Czech
- dumneavoastră Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- *domanos Proto-Italic
- don Jamaican Creole