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Word entry · 3 letters

don

Best crossword clue

"Put on clothing"

3 letters · collected on this word page

3 lettersPronunciation /dɒn/Part of speech verb, nounSorted dnoStarts with DEnds with N3 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. put clothing on one's body

Word origin

From Latin dominus (“lord, head of household”), akin to Italian don, Sicilian don, Spanish don; from domus (“house”). Doublet of dom, domine, dominie, and dominus.

Used in a sentence

  • No one feeds at the high table except the dons and the gentlemen-commoners, who are undergraduates in velvet caps and silk gowns[.]
  • Wo often of an evening go and hear the band in the square opposite the captin-giniral’s palace—it is here were the dons and donnas and all the fashionables assemble, and I must say it’s amusing.
  • I’m confused like who’s this don .22 bells and that who’s on

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Used as a crossword answer3 curated clues

01Put on clothing3 letters
02University lecturer3 letters
03Put on, as clothes3 letters

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