Don
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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.
Other Uses
- 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
- in Spanish and Italian, Don is a title of respect for a male, prefixed to the name, often paired alone with the first/Christian name (e.g. Don Juan, Don Quijote, Don Giovanni). It is abbreviated as D..
- 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...".
- An Ashkenazi variant transliteration of Dan, the tribe of Israel.