don

Meanings

Noun

• A university professor, particularly one at Oxford or Cambridge.
• An employee of a university residence who lives among the student residents.
• A mafia boss.
• Any man, bloke, dude.

Verb

• To put on clothing; to dress (oneself) in an article of personal attire.

Origin

• From Latin dominus, akin to Spanish don and Italian don; from domus. dom, domine, dominie, and dominus.
• From Middle English don ("to put on"), from Old English dōn on. Compare also doff, dup, dout.