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The term Don may refer to;

• Don, Donald Duck's nickname.

• Don, Nord, a commune of the Nord département in northern France

• Dôn, a mother goddess in Welsh mythology

• an abbreviated/diminutive form of the Western male name Donald.

• in English universities, traditionally, a head, fellow or tutor of a college (see also Superdon)

• In pharmacology, DON refers to the psychedelic phenethylamine 2,5-dimethoxy-4-nitroamphetamine

• in Spanish and Italian, Don is a nobility title for a male, prefixed to the name, often paired alone with the first/Christian name (e.g. Don Juan, Don Quixote, Don Giovanni). It is abbreviated as D.. The female for Don is Doña (eg. Doña Concepcion).

• In Sri Lankan culture those of portuguese decent some people of higher caste where bestowed the title of Don for men and Doña for women.e.g. Don Manoj Gihan Silvapulle
• An (obsolescent) colloquial term for a Spanish person. The word appears in Henry Newbolt's poem "Drake's Drum": "If the dons sight Devon, I'll quit the port of heaven...".

• Don is also commonly used as a general term for mafia bosses, coming from the Italian term

• An Ashkenazi variant transliteration of Dan, the tribe of Israel.

Rivers

• 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.

Movie

• Don (1978) is a hindi movie starring Amitabh Bacchan.

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