Meaning of don in English
(Definition of don from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of don
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Sometimes they have seen the scripts in advance of donning the masks, sometimes not.
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Writing avowedly as a historian, he dons (in his own phrase) ' many methodological hats ', which he wears (his readers will find) with admirable style.
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She looks almost as though she has donned a smooth carapace with wrinkles and ambiguous edges airbrushed out.
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At first, the same woman who cycled during the summer donned her habit in the autumn and rode to the hunt in her sidesaddle.
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A device we don as part of our clothing is experienced as much less problematic than a device implanted within the body.
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So what does it say, today, when a composer (so to speak) dons his wig?
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Accessories such as earrings and makeup could also be donned for the trip between school and home.
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At times, he dons a whig prescriptive hat, endorsing "planned decentralization".
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Identities can be donned and doffed like hats.
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The least intrusive technology can be donned and doffed at will.
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There is no consistent or direct connection between the re effeminati and the frequent cross-dressing plots; these weak men do not necessarily don female attire.
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In a very real sense, social institutions are never simply cut from whole cloth and dutifully donned.
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He abandoned a conventional political career in order to don the blackshirt.
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He also possessed few close friends, and none who would have led to any external portrait of this closeted don.
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Audiences, after all, paid to watch kings and princes perform on the stage and to watch boys don the personae and - literally - the cloaks of majesty.
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