"don" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /dɒn/ [Received-Pronunciation], /dɑn/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-don.ogg Forms: dons [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒn Etymology: 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. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|dominus|t=lord, head of household}} Latin dominus (“lord, head of household”), {{cog|it|don}} Italian don, {{cog|scn|don}} Sicilian don, {{cog|es|don}} Spanish don, {{doublet|en|dom|domine|dominie|dominus}} Doublet of dom, domine, dominie, and dominus Head templates: {{en-noun}} don (plural dons)
  1. A university professor, particularly one at Oxford or Cambridge.
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  2. An employee of a university residence who lives among the student residents.
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  3. A mafia boss. Translations (mafia boss): 老大 (lǎodà) (Chinese Mandarin), maffiabaas [masculine] (Dutch), mafiapomo (Finnish), don (Finnish), डॉन (ḍŏn) (Hindi), don [masculine] (Italian), ドン (don) (Japanese), mafiatopp [masculine] (Norwegian), паха́н (paxán) [masculine] (Russian), па́хан (páxan) [masculine] (Russian), дон (english: foreign context; don) [masculine] (Russian), дон (don) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-don-en-noun-X5WDvOS4 Disambiguation of 'mafia boss': 2 2 95 1 0
  4. A (usually Spanish or Italian) title of respect to a man, especially a lord or nobleman.
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  5. (MLE) Any man, bloke, dude. Tags: Multicultural-London-English Synonyms: donny
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Derived forms: donnish, donny (english: bloke) Related terms: donzel
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /dɒn/ [Received-Pronunciation], /dɑn/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-don.ogg Forms: dons [present, singular, third-person], donning [participle, present], donned [participle, past], donned [past]
Rhymes: -ɒn Etymology: From Middle English don (“to put on”), from Old English dōn on. Compare also doff, dup, dout. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|don||to put on}} Middle English don (“to put on”), {{inh|en|ang|dōn on}} Old English dōn on Head templates: {{en-verb}} don (third-person singular simple present dons, present participle donning, simple past and past participle donned)
  1. (transitive) To put on clothing; to dress (oneself) in an article of personal attire. Tags: transitive Synonyms: put on, clothe, dight, enrobe, clothe Derived forms: donner Related terms: put on, wear, ram-don (english: etymologically unrelated) Translations (put on clothes): кейеү (keyew) (Bashkir), обличам (obličam) (Bulgarian), навличам (navličam) (Bulgarian), posar-se (Catalan), 穿上 (chuānshang) (Chinese Mandarin), obléci si [perfective] (Czech), vzít si na sebe [perfective] (Czech), nasadit si [perfective] (Czech), tage på (Danish), aantrekken (Dutch), zich uitdossen (Dutch), surmeti (Esperanto), pukeutua (Finnish), sonnustautua (Finnish), pukea ylleen (Finnish), mettre (French), enfiler (French), revêtir (French), anziehen (German), 𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌼𐍉𐌽 (gahamōn) (Gothic), felvesz (Hungarian), ölt (Hungarian), felölt (Hungarian), metar (Ido), mettere (Italian), indossare (Italian), portare (Italian), かぶる (kaburu) (english: a hat) [usually] (Japanese), 履く (haku) (english: footwear) (Japanese), 着る (kiru) (english: other clothes) (Japanese), induo (Latin), ta på (Norwegian), ta på seg (Norwegian Bokmål), bære (english: helmet, hat, mask etc.) (Norwegian Bokmål), ubierać (Polish), zakładać (Polish), wkładać (Polish), vestir (Portuguese), надева́ть (nadevátʹ) (Russian), наде́ть (nadétʹ) (Russian), प्रवस्ते (pravaste) (Sanskrit), обла́чити [Cyrillic, imperfective] (Serbo-Croatian), о̀бӯћи [Cyrillic, perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), одије́вати [Cyrillic, imperfective] (Serbo-Croatian), о̀дјенути [Cyrillic, perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), obláčiti [Roman, imperfective] (Serbo-Croatian), òbūći [Roman, perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), odijévati [Roman, imperfective] (Serbo-Croatian), òdjenuti [Roman, perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), mittìrisi (Sicilian), abbiàrisi (Sicilian), purtari (Sicilian), obleči (Slovene), nadeti (Slovene), ponerse (Spanish), vestirse de (Spanish), ikläda sig (Swedish), ta på sig (Swedish), ใส่ (sài) (Thai), одягати (odjahaty) (Ukrainian), надягати (nadjahaty) (Ukrainian), mặc (Vietnamese)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Coordinate term: donna"
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          "ref": "1845 September, Charles F. Ellerman, “Reminiscences of the Island of Cuba”, in Simmonds’s Colonial Magazine, volume VI, number 21, London, chapter VIII (Mrs. Smith seized with furor scribendi, writes a lengthy Epistle to her dear Cousin Mrs. Margery Stubbs), page 79:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1906 August, Harry H. Dunn, “Afoot in California”, in Western Field, volume 9, number 1, San Francisco, Calif., page 481, column 1:",
          "text": "Time was when the walker amid California vales could stop at some cool cellar hid in these western hills and pour from great flagons a shimmering glass of cool red wine. Nowadays, the hand of the law has stepped in and spoiled all this, because the hordes of wanderers who have come west have made of these resting places questionable resorts—made of them places that the Spanish dons and donnas never dreamed of.",
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          "ref": "2019, Caleb Stewart Rossiter, “Taking the Handles: Debating History and Morality”, in The Turkey and the Eagle: The Struggle for America’s Global Role, New York, N.Y.: Algora Publishing, →ISBN, page 283:",
          "text": "A sustained media campaign against American domination would require the support of just a few dot-com dons and donnas or hedge fund phenoms who want to head straight for structural change and skip the reformist way stations supported by philanthropic business leaders like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Ben Cohen, Gary Hirshberg, and the later[ ]Paul Newman’s family.",
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          "ref": "2017 October 31, Loski (lyrics and music), “Olympic Chinging”, from 1:55:",
          "text": "I’m confused like who’s this don\n.22 bells and that who’s on",
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          "ref": "1886-88, Richard Francis Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night:",
          "text": "Now when he had reached the King's capital wherein was Alaeddin, he alighted at one of the Kháns; and, when he had rested from the weariness of wayfare, he donned his dress and went down to wander about the streets, where he never passed a group without hearing them prate about the pavilion and its grandeur and vaunt the beauty of Alaeddin and his lovesomeness, his liberality and generosity, his fine manners and his good morals.",
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          "text": "Having donned our PPE, we walk through the site to the prefab that controls access to the tunnel.",
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          "code": "ba",
          "lang": "Bashkir",
          "roman": "keyew",
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          "word": "кейеү"
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        {
          "code": "bg",
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          "word": "навличам"
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        {
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "posar-se"
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        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "chuānshang",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "穿上"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "obléci si"
        },
        {
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          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "vzít si na sebe"
        },
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          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
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          "word": "nasadit si"
        },
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "tage på"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "aantrekken"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "zich uitdossen"
        },
        {
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "surmeti"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "pukeutua"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "sonnustautua"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "pukea ylleen"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "mettre"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "enfiler"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "revêtir"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "anziehen"
        },
        {
          "code": "got",
          "lang": "Gothic",
          "roman": "gahamōn",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌼𐍉𐌽"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "felvesz"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "ölt"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "felölt"
        },
        {
          "code": "io",
          "lang": "Ido",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "metar"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "mettere"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "indossare"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "portare"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "english": "a hat",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "kaburu",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "かぶる"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "english": "footwear",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "haku",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "履く"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "english": "other clothes",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "kiru",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "着る"
        },
        {
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "induo"
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        {
          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "ta på"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "ta på seg"
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        {
          "code": "nb",
          "english": "helmet, hat, mask etc.",
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          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "bære"
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        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "ubierać"
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        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "zakładać"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "wkładać"
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          "code": "pt",
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          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "vestir"
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        {
          "code": "ru",
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          "roman": "nadevátʹ",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "надева́ть"
        },
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "nadétʹ",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
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        {
          "code": "sa",
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          "roman": "pravaste",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "प्रवस्ते"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
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          "word": "обла́чити"
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        {
          "code": "sh",
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          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "о̀бӯћи"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "одије́вати"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
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          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
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          "word": "о̀дјенути"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "obláčiti"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
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          "word": "òbūći"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "imperfective"
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          "word": "odijévati"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
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          "word": "òdjenuti"
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        {
          "code": "scn",
          "lang": "Sicilian",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "mittìrisi"
        },
        {
          "code": "scn",
          "lang": "Sicilian",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "abbiàrisi"
        },
        {
          "code": "scn",
          "lang": "Sicilian",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "purtari"
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        {
          "code": "sl",
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          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "obleči"
        },
        {
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "nadeti"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "ponerse"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "vestirse de"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "ikläda sig"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "ta på sig"
        },
        {
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "sài",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "ใส่"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "odjahaty",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "одягати"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "nadjahaty",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "надягати"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "put on clothes",
          "word": "mặc"
        }
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      "word": "donnish"
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          "ref": "1859–1861, [Thomas Hughes], chapter I, in Tom Brown at Oxford: […], part 1st, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1861, →OCLC, page 12:",
          "text": "No one feeds at the high table except the dons and the gentlemen-commoners, who are undergraduates in velvet caps and silk gowns[.]",
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          "text": "The truth is, unless a man can get the prestige and income of a Don and write donnish books, it’s hardly worth while for him to make a Greek and Latin machine of himself and be able to spin you out pages of the Greek dramatists at any verse you’ll give him as a cue.",
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          "text": "Coordinate term: donna"
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          "ref": "1845 September, Charles F. Ellerman, “Reminiscences of the Island of Cuba”, in Simmonds’s Colonial Magazine, volume VI, number 21, London, chapter VIII (Mrs. Smith seized with furor scribendi, writes a lengthy Epistle to her dear Cousin Mrs. Margery Stubbs), page 79:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1906 August, Harry H. Dunn, “Afoot in California”, in Western Field, volume 9, number 1, San Francisco, Calif., page 481, column 1:",
          "text": "Time was when the walker amid California vales could stop at some cool cellar hid in these western hills and pour from great flagons a shimmering glass of cool red wine. Nowadays, the hand of the law has stepped in and spoiled all this, because the hordes of wanderers who have come west have made of these resting places questionable resorts—made of them places that the Spanish dons and donnas never dreamed of.",
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          "ref": "2019, Caleb Stewart Rossiter, “Taking the Handles: Debating History and Morality”, in The Turkey and the Eagle: The Struggle for America’s Global Role, New York, N.Y.: Algora Publishing, →ISBN, page 283:",
          "text": "A sustained media campaign against American domination would require the support of just a few dot-com dons and donnas or hedge fund phenoms who want to head straight for structural change and skip the reformist way stations supported by philanthropic business leaders like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Ben Cohen, Gary Hirshberg, and the later[ ]Paul Newman’s family.",
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          "ref": "2017 October 31, Loski (lyrics and music), “Olympic Chinging”, from 1:55:",
          "text": "I’m confused like who’s this don\n.22 bells and that who’s on",
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      "code": "cmn",
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          "text": "Now when he had reached the King's capital wherein was Alaeddin, he alighted at one of the Kháns; and, when he had rested from the weariness of wayfare, he donned his dress and went down to wander about the streets, where he never passed a group without hearing them prate about the pavilion and its grandeur and vaunt the beauty of Alaeddin and his lovesomeness, his liberality and generosity, his fine manners and his good morals.",
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      "word": "穿上"
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      "code": "io",
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      "word": "ta på"
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      "code": "nb",
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      "word": "ta på seg"
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      "code": "pl",
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      "sense": "put on clothes",
      "word": "zakładać"
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    {
      "code": "pl",
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      "code": "pt",
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      "word": "vestir"
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      "sense": "put on clothes",
      "word": "надева́ть"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "sense": "put on clothes",
      "word": "наде́ть"
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      "code": "sa",
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      "roman": "pravaste",
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      "word": "प्रवस्ते"
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "put on clothes",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "обла́чити"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "put on clothes",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "о̀бӯћи"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "put on clothes",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "одије́вати"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "put on clothes",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "о̀дјенути"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "put on clothes",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "obláčiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "put on clothes",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "òbūći"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "put on clothes",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "odijévati"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "put on clothes",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "òdjenuti"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "put on clothes",
      "word": "mittìrisi"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "put on clothes",
      "word": "abbiàrisi"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "put on clothes",
      "word": "purtari"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "put on clothes",
      "word": "obleči"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "put on clothes",
      "word": "nadeti"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "put on clothes",
      "word": "ponerse"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "put on clothes",
      "word": "vestirse de"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "put on clothes",
      "word": "ikläda sig"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "put on clothes",
      "word": "ta på sig"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "sài",
      "sense": "put on clothes",
      "word": "ใส่"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "odjahaty",
      "sense": "put on clothes",
      "word": "одягати"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "nadjahaty",
      "sense": "put on clothes",
      "word": "надягати"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "put on clothes",
      "word": "mặc"
    }
  ],
  "word": "don"
}

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