1
- a university teacher, especially a senior member of a college at Oxford or Cambridge(尤指牛津或剑桥大学的)学院教师(或学监)。
- ORIGIN: transferred colloquial use of the Spanish title (see below).
2
Don
a Spanish title prefixed to a male forename唐(西班牙人用于男子名前的称呼)。
2.1
- a Spanish gentleman; a Spaniard西班牙绅士; 西班牙人。
2.2
- N. Amer. informal a high-ranking member of the Mafia〈北美, 非正式〉黑手党头目。
派生词
donship
noun词源
early 16th cent. (in sense 2): from Spanish, from Latin dominus 'lord, master'. Compare with donna.