Don

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɒn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /dɑn/
• Homophones: don; dawn (cot–caught merger)
• Rhymes: -ɒn

Don

1. A diminutive of the male given names Donald or Gordon.
   • 2025 May 8, Veronica Stracqualursi and Sarah Ferris, “House passes GOP-led bill to rename Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The bill, which lawmakers approved in a 211-206 vote, now moves to the Republican-led Senate for consideration. One Republican, Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska, voted with Democrats Thursday against the measure.

Borrowed from Russian and Ukrainian Дон (Don). Known in Ancient Greece and Rome as Latin Tanais, Ancient Greek Τάναϊς (Tánaïs).

the Don

2. A river, the fifth-longest in Europe, in Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia, flowing 1160 miles to the Sea of Azov.
   • 1613, Samuel Purchas, “[Asia.] Of the Tartarians, and of diuers Nations which they subdued; with their Pristine Rites.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouered, from the Creation vnto this Present. […], London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, book IV (Of the Armenians, Medes, Persians, Parthians, Scythians, Tartarians, Chinois, and of Their Religions), page 339:

     Thence they marched againſt Orna, a Port Towne on the Riuer Don, where were many Gazarians, Alanians, Ruſſians, and Saracens, which he drowned with the Riuer running through the Citie, turning it out of the chanell.

• Cossack

• Strabo, Geographica, 11.2.2.

Probably from the common Celtic river name Proto-Celtic *Dānu << Proto-Indo-European *dʰenh₂-, found in many other river names such as Danube, and Dniester. Connected with the Welsh river goddess Dôn, whose name is from the same origin, though it could have been influenced by Welsh dawn (“gift”), Irish dán (“gift, offering”), Latin dōnum.

the Don

1. A river in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, United Kingdom, flowing 62 miles to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
2. A river in South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, on which Doncaster is situated.
3. A minor river in Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom, which joins the Tyne at Jarrow.
4. A river in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, named after the River Don in Yorkshire.

• Celtic Cosmology and the Otherworld: Mythic Origins, Sovereignty and Liminality, p. 97
• Llewellyn's Complete Book of Names for Pagans, Wiccans, Witches, Druids, Heathens, Mages, Shamans & Independent Thinkers of All Sorts who are Curious about Names from Every Place and Every Time, p. 178

• As an English and Scottish surname, variant of Dunn.
• Also as an English and Scottish surname, from Dun, a place in Scotland.
• As an Italian surname, variant of Dono, shortened from dono di Dio (“gift of God”).
• As a Galician surname, from a nickname derived from don (“kindness, favor”).
• As a Hungarian surname, variant of Donát, Donath.
• As a French surname of Germanic origin, from the old name Dodo, related to Dodier, from the name Dodhari, the first element a reduplicated word of arbitrary origin and the second from *hari (“army”).
• Also as a French surname, from the place Don in Nord.
• As a Jewish surname, from a variant of Dan.
• As a Chinese surname, Romanized from 曾, see Zeng.
• As a Vietnamese surname Đôn, possibly from Chinese 敦, see Dun.

Don

1. A surname.

• NOD, ODN, nod

From Russian Дон (Don).

• IPA^(key): /dɔn/

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• Hyphenation: Don
• Rhymes: -ɔn

Don m

1. Don (a river, the fifth-longest in Europe, in Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia, flowing 1160 miles to the Sea of Azov)

From Russian Дон (Don).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdon/, [ˈdo̞n]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification^(key): Don
• Hyphenation^(key): Don

Don

1. Don (a river, the fifth-longest in Europe, in Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia, flowing 1160 miles to the Sea of Azov)

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Don m (proper noun, strong, genitive Dons or Don)

1. Don (a river, the fifth-longest in Europe, in Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia, flowing 1160 miles to the Sea of Azov)

Don m

1. don (honorific title, especially in Spain and Italy)

• IPA^(key): [ˈdon]
• Rhymes: -on

Don

1. Don (a river, the fifth-longest in Europe, in Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia, flowing 1160 miles to the Sea of Azov)

Don ?

1. Don (a river, the fifth-longest in Europe, in Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia, flowing 1160 miles to the Sea of Azov)

Borrowed from Russian Дон (Don), from Old East Slavic Донъ (Donŭ).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔn/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔn
• Syllabification: Don

Don m inan

1. Don (a river, the fifth-longest in Europe, in Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia, flowing 1160 miles to the Sea of Azov)

• Don in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• D.

From Latin domĭnus (“sir, mister, senior”).

Don m (plural Dones, feminine Doña, feminine plural Doñas)

1. title of respect for a man: sir
   • 1995, Luis "Checho" González, “Mi General Augusto Pinochet”, in Himno en Honor al Capitán General Don Augusto Pinochet Ugarte – Apología y marchas al Ejército de Chile:

     Mi general, Augusto Pinochet / Usted es el nuevo Padre de la patria / Está su nombre en la historia de Chile / Como lo ha sido Don Bernardo O'Higgins

     My general, Augusto Pinochet / You are the new Father of the country / Your name is in the history of Chile / As was Sir Bernardo O'Higgins

• → Tagalog: Don

• don
• doña
• dueño

Borrowed from Spanish Don.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈdon/ [ˈd̪on̪]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: Don

Don (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜈ᜔)

1. title of a gentleman: sir; Sir

   Synonyms: Ginoo, Maginoo, Senyor

• ser
• mamsir