Don vs Dan - What's the difference?
don | dan |
(clothing) to put on, to dress in
(obsolete)
* Spenser
* Thomson
As a noun don
is (science) (dissolved organic nitrogen).As an adjective dan is
stretched.don
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) dominus'', "lord", "head of household", akin to Spanish ''don'' and Italian ''dom''; from ''domus'', "house", + diminutive suffix ''-inus . Compare dominie.Derived terms
* donnishEtymology 2
A contraction of (etyl) do on. Compare also doff.Verb
(donn)- To don one's clothes.
Antonyms
* (put on clothes)See also
* (l) * (l)Anagrams
* ----dan
English
(dan rank)Etymology 1
From (etyl)Etymology 2
Uncertain.Etymology 3
(etyl)Noun
- Old Dan Geoffry, in gently spright / The pure wellhead of poetry did dwell.
- What time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee land.