Don
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The term Don may refer to:
- Don, Donald Duck's nickname.
- Don, the term used for a crime or Mafia leader.
- 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 in Spanish (eg. Doña Concepcion) and Donna in Italian (eg. prima donna)
- In Sri Lankan culture those of Portuguese decent some people of higher caste were 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...".
- An Ashkenazi variant transliteration of Dan, the tribe of Israel.
- An acronymn for the United States Department of the Navy
- DON Smallgoods, an Australian smallgoods company with the gutterally pronounced slogan "Iz Don. Iz Good."
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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.
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Movie
- Don (1978) is a blockbuster Hindi movie starring Amitabh Bachchan.
- Don (2006) is a Hindi Bollywood remake starring Shahrukh Khan in Amitabh Bachchan's role.
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TV Series
- DON is the name of a TV series aired on Star One. DON is the nickname and the letters are the initials of the protagonist's name: Detective Omkar Nath.
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