"DON" značenje u engleski leksikon

director of nursing

Množina: Dons

(Welsh) Goddess; mother of Gwydion and Arianrod(Arianrhod); corresponds to Irish Danu.

Množina: Dons

A European river in southwestern Russia; flows into the Sea of Azov; Also called: Don River.
River in the Russian Federation, rising to the S of Moscow and entering the northeast extremity of the Sea of Azov; length 1,900 km/1,180 mi. In its lower reaches the Don is 1.5 km/1 mi wide, and for about four months of the year it is closed by ice. Its upper course is linked with the river Volga by a canal.
During World War II, Soviet forces gained valuable bridgeheads on the river from which they were able to mount a counteroffensive to the German invasion, swinging south to cut off the German 6th Army at Stalingrad Nov 1942. The expansion of this Soviet front forced those German units capable of escaping to cross the river and reorganize well to the west.

Množina: dons

ETYM Spanish don; akin to Portu. dom, Italian donno; from Latin dominus master. Related to Dame, Domine, Dominie, Domino, Dan, Dom. /> 1. A title used before men's names in some Spanish speaking countries.
2. A title used in Britain for professors or tutors (especially at Oxford).
A Spanish title of respect for a gentleman or nobleman.

To put on; to place upon oneself.

A successful womanizer (after a profligate Spanish nobleman).
Character of Spanish legend, Don Juan Tenorio, supposed to have lived in the 14th century and notorious for his debauchery. Tirso de Molina, Molière, Mozart, Byron, and George Bernard Shaw have featured the legend in their works.

Množina: don juanisms

Množina: Don Pacifico Affairs

Incident in 1850 in which British foreign secretary Lord Palmerston was criticized in Parliament and elsewhere in Europe for using British naval superiority to impose his foreign policy. Palmerston sent gunboats to blockade the Greek coast in support of the claim of a Portuguese merchant, David Pacifico, who was born on Gibraltar (and thus a British subject), for compensation from the Greek government after his house was burned down in anti-Semitic riots.
This action brought diplomatic protests from the governments of France and Russia, who had also guaranteed Greek independence.
Palmerston successfully defended his action in Parliament, but fell from power the following year, 1851.

Množina: don pedros

Množina: Don Quixotes

Novel by the Spanish writer Cervantes; see Don Quixote de la Mancha.
1. Any impractical idealist (after Cervantes' hero).
2. The hero of a romance by Cervantes; chivalrous but impractical.

Množina: Don Quixote de la Manchas

Satirical romance by the Spanish novelist Miguel de Cervantes, published in two parts 1605 and 1615. Don Quixote, a self-styled knight, embarks on a series of chivalric adventures accompanied by his servant Sancho Panza. Quixote's imagination leads him to see harmless objects as enemies to be fought, as in his tilting at windmills. English translators include Tobias Smollett 1775.

Množina: don'ts

A command or entreaty not to do something