don
noun
[ dɒn ]
• a university teacher, especially a senior member of a college at Oxford or Cambridge.
Similar:
university teacher,
(university) lecturer,
fellow,
professor,
reader,
lector,
college tutor,
academic,
scholar,
egghead,
senior common room,
• a Spanish title prefixed to a male forename.
Origin:
early 16th century (in don1 (sense 2 of the noun)): from Spanish, from Latin dominus ‘lord, master’.
don
verb
• put on (an item of clothing).
• "in the dressing room the players donned their football shirts"
Similar:
put on,
get dressed in,
dress (oneself) in,
pull on,
climb into,
get into,
fling on,
throw on,
slip into,
slip on,
change into,
rig oneself out in,
clothe oneself in,
array oneself in,
deck oneself out in,
accoutre oneself in,
put round one's shoulders,
put on one's head,
tog oneself up/out in,
doll oneself up in,
pour oneself into,
Opposite:
take off,
Origin:
late Middle English: contraction of do on . Compare with doff.
