Synonyms for don
dɒn; Sp., It. dɔn

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 2 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. Don(noun)

   a Spanish gentleman or nobleman

   Synonyms:
   father, preceptor

2. preceptor, don(noun)

   teacher at a university or college (especially at Cambridge or Oxford)

   Synonyms:
   father, preceptor

3. don, father(noun)

   the head of an organized crime family

   Synonyms:
   sire, father, founding father, founder, forefather, preceptor, beginner, begetter, male parent

4. Don(noun)

   Celtic goddess; mother of Gwydion and Arianrhod; corresponds to Irish Danu

   Synonyms:
   father, preceptor

5. Don, Don River(noun)

   a European river in southwestern Russia; flows into the Sea of Azov

   Synonyms:
   father, preceptor

6. Don(verb)

   a Spanish courtesy title or form of address for men that is prefixed to the forename

   "Don Roberto"

   Synonyms:
   father, preceptor

7. wear, put on, get into, don, assume(verb)

   put clothing on one's body

   "What should I wear today?"; "He put on his best suit for the wedding"; "The princess donned a long blue dress"; "The queen assumed the stately robes"; "He got into his jeans"

   Synonyms:
   wear thin, dupe, put one over, seize, take, simulate, befool, slang, hold out, tire, put on, endure, wear out, put one across, acquire, move into, adopt, strike, have on, take for granted, come in, assume, take over, gain, presume, take in, go into, break, fall apart, jade, apply, arrogate, tire out, wear upon, turn in, get into, sham, bust, get in, usurp, wear off, gull, outwear, cod, fool, enter, wear down, accept, weary, take on, feign, fatigue, mount, go in, take up, tangle with, fag out, wear, bear

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. don(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   put on, slip on, dress in

PPDB, the paraphrase database(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. List of paraphrases:

   gift, donation, donated, knack, donating, donate, donations, gifts, gifting, tang, grant, -don, goku, giving, flair

How to pronounce don?

Alex

US English

Daniel

British

Karen

Australian

Veena

Indian

How to say don in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use don in a sentence?

1. Bill Cosby:

   I don’t hear her say anything .?.?. And so I continue and I go into the area that is somewhere between permission and rejection.

2. Andrew Berman:

   We don't want to lose what we built in this whole process either.

3. Greg James:

   We don't want to control it too much because I think what's nice is that it's so fluid and that everybody owns it individually or in little teams.

4. Nando Rodriguez:

   The environment is probably the one issue where race, culture, gender (and) age don't matter, nothing is in separation except the planet or destroying it.

5. Oprah Winfrey:

   I am who I am today because of the experience of learning to read at an early age. Reading opened up a whole world for me beyond the red dirt road and my grandmother's porch in Mississippi, i want to do that for everybody. And the opportunity to do this with Apple, to speak to people all over the world about the pleasures, the excitement, the tension, the drama that a good book can bring you... I don't know what's better than that.

Images & Illustrations of don