Antonyms for
don
A mafia boss, primarily for Italian or Italian American bosses.
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No Antonyms Found for Don

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All Definitions for Don

Below are all the dictionary definitions of don:

1A mafia boss, primarily for Italian or Italian American bosses.
2A university professor, particularly one at Oxford or Cambridge.
3To put on clothing
4To dress (oneself) in an article of personal attire.
5An employee of a university residence who lives among the student residents.
6Any man, bloke, dude.
7A (usually Spanish or Italian) title of respect to a man, especially a lord or nobleman.
8A diminutive of the male given names Donald or Gordon.
9A river, the fifth-longest in Europe, in Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia, flowing 1160 miles to the Sea of Azov.
10A river in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, United Kingdom, flowing 62 miles to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
11A river in South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, on which Doncaster is situated.
12A minor river in Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom, which joins the Tyne at Jarrow.
13A river in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, named after the River Don in Yorkshire.
14A locality in the City of Devonport, Tasmania, Australia.
15A surname.
16Dissolved organic nitrogen
17Abbreviation of deoxynivalenol, a toxic byproduct of Fusarium head blight of barley. [vomitoxin]

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