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"When Mademoiselle comes to be Seсora," thought she--she knew that her mistress and the don were affianced--"it will be well to have a Seсor's esteem.

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  1. noun Used as a courtesy title before the name of a man in a Spanish-speaking area.
  2. noun Chiefly British A head, tutor, or fellow at a college of Oxford or Cambridge.
  3. noun Chiefly British A college or university professor.
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  • He had been thinking girl, and he would have to stop that, even if it might be a hell of a job The man who had spoken, said, "If you have guns and ideas of using them--don't," and came into view, walking out on a limb some twenty feet overhead. —  082 - The Dagger In The Sky
  • They say nothing less than a magician can help me Then we'll try some magic," Doc smiled Please--don't joke about it!" —  004 - The Polar Treasure
  • Now I ask you gents--don't that sound like bushwa The listeners blinked and exchanged doubtful glances. —  006 - The Red Skull
  • Once Andrew was persuaded to drive from Lon­don, the police lost interest. —  Disordered Minds
  • By implying that they pray to a different God, (they don't - Allah is the Arabic word for God - the God of Abraham, Moses, and Jesus), the current insinuation is that anyone who is not a Christian is not an American. —  altmuslim
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Spanish dialectal and Italian, both from Latin dominus, lord; see dem- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English, contraction of do on, to put on; see do1.

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  1. A contr. of do on, at first prob. (like doff, from do + off) in the imperative; Middle English don on, Anglo-Saxon dōn on, preterit dyde on: see do. Cf. doff.
  2. from Spanish don = Portuguese dom, a title equivalent to English Mr., from Middle Latin dominus: see dominus. The word is ult. the same as Middle English dan: see dan.
  3. A dial. variant of dan.
 

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