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don (1)

don [ don ] (plural dons)


noun 
Definition:
 
1. leader of organized crime family: a head of an organized crime family, especially in the Mafia

2. U.K. university or college teacher: a university or college teacher, especially one at the universities of Oxford or Cambridge in England

3. Spanish man of rank: a Spanish gentleman or aristocrat
California in the days of the dons

[Late 16th century. Via Spanish< Latin dominus "lord"]
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