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DON JUAN
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• DON JUAN (noun)
The noun DON JUAN has 2 senses:
1. a legendary Spanish nobleman and philanderer who became the hero of many poems and plays and operas
2. any successful womanizer (after the legendary profligate Spanish nobleman)
Familiarity information: DON JUAN used as a noun is rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
A legendary Spanish nobleman and philanderer who became the hero of many poems and plays and operas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
Lord; noble; nobleman (a titled peer of the realm)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any successful womanizer (after the legendary profligate Spanish nobleman)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Don Juan" is a kind of...):
philanderer; womaniser; womanizer (a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them)
Domain region:
Espana; Kingdom of Spain; Spain (a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power)
Context examples
He is a bit of a Don Juan, and you can imagine that for a man like him it is not a very difficult part to play in a quiet country district.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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