Don
There are several rivers named Don:
- Don River, Russia, one of the main rivers of Russia.
- River Don, Scotland, a river in Aberdeenshire which rises in the Grampians and flows 131 km (82 miles) eastwards to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
- River Don, England, a river in South Yorkshire which rises in the Pennines and flows 112 km (70 miles) eastwards to join the Yorkshire Ouse shortly before it, in turn, flows into the Humber.
- Don River, Toronto is one of two major rivers framing Toronto against Lake Ontario.
The word Don also stands for:
- Don, Nord, a commune of the Nord département in northern France
- Dôn, a mother goddess in Welsh mythology.
- an abbreviated form of the male Christian name Donald.
- in English universities, a head, fellow or tutor of a college.
- in Spanish and Italian, Don is a title of respect prefixed to a man's Christian name, e.g. Don Juan, Don Quijote, Don Bosco, or in the operas Don Carlos, Don Giovanni, Don Pasquale, etc. Hence, it is also a (rather old-fashioned) slang name for a Spaniard. The word appears in Henry Newbolt's poem Drake's Drum: "If the dons sight Devon, I'll quit the port of heaven...". It is abbreviated as D.. Don is also commonly used as a general term for mafia bosses.
- Used as a verb: To wear or to 'put on' an item of clothing.
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