Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- Contraction of do not.
- Nonstandard Contraction of does not.
- n. A statement of what should not be done: a list of the dos and don'ts.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A contraction of do not, common in colloquial language, and, more improperly, as a contraction of does not (doesn't).
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- From do + -n't. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But many using the term don't really understand what they are saying.”
The Huffington Post: Tribeca Film: Future of Film: Why Transmedia is Catching On
“Part of the challenge is that they're confusing to both the clients and the employees: The term don't believe agencies that advertise as nonsexual.”
“To date, nobody can say exactly who or what he is—his clothes, his pose, his expression don't add up.”
“Teams that believe they're a year away from a title don't undergo the kind of organizational housecleaning the Mets did last fall.”
“Representative Michele Bachmann on Wednesday repeated the phrase "don't settle" over and over to students at Liberty University, founded by the Rev.”
“The kinds of skyscrapers that bear his name don't get built by people with small egos and a lack of self confidence.”
“And Murray made a sharply critical reference to what she called the "don't touch ours" theme of TV ads aired by the American Association of Retired Persons AARP.”
“• Winner -- Quarterbacks who enter the league with a second- or third-round label don't get anywhere near the same level of respect we shower upon the celebrated first-rounders, but that doesn't seem to be holding back the likes of Colt McCoy, John Beck, Charlie Whitehurst or Ryan Mallett this preseason.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘don't’.
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EN - Glasgow stop list
Words to be replaced by a paragraph mark if you are after terms and MWEs.
about, above, across, after, afterwards, again, against, all, almost, alone, along, already and 291 more...
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Words Heard Too Often In Songs
Words overused in modern pop music.
Also see ruzuzu's list: Words that should be heard in songs more often.love, heart, dance, dancefloor, down, take, want, night, fight, baby, like, ooooh and 136 more...
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bootload's Words
grouse, beaut, ripper, gassit, hack, hacking, twit, spon, goon, rosella, magpie, galah and 184 more...
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National Library Agenda Summit
nla2006, summit, agenda, library, ala, diversity, education, learning, continuous, scan, environmental, plan and 646 more...
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cindywrites's Words
chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 more...
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haguremetaru's Words
floozy, mandalay, mandible, x, don't, will, ridiculous, funily, stuff, junk, doody, manning and 152 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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loinfruit's Words
buddy, hungry, hug, want, you, i, mommy, school, ballet, sign, sign language, language and 170 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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The Wørd
Trademark of Stephen Colbert and The Colbert Report.
truthiness, bacchanalia, disappointed, love handles, pussy, overrated, perspective, quitter, alito, camilla-mania, cat, shhhh!... and 335 more...
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words i use all the time
juke, what, disaster, ridiculous, don't, mandalay bay, manning, stuff, walt, i will, because i do, wrecking ball and 4 more...
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Quotidian words
a diary of sorts
crown, dentist, purple, anxiety, relief, day, garbage, cat, a, as, tidy, ha and 54 more...
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digitaltempest's Words
provocation, dour, verizon, objective, caveat, diaspora, naked, sploosh, queen, goddess, odalisque, dementia and 78 more...
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My Words
just a compilation of words that I made.
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daves list 1
Not sure. Just trying to figure out how Wordie works!
Tweets
Looking for tweets for don't.
whichbe Don't think about don't. Aug 14, 2008
chained_bear Oh god, I love that site. LOVE it... Thanks trivet! Jul 22, 2008
trivet The graphjam does have a variety of stuffie-esque graphs. Jul 22, 2008
sionnach Aargh! The dreaded pie-chart. To paraphrase Tufte, "the only display worse than a pie-chart is one which contains multiple pie-charts."
discussion of pie-chart pros and cons
(I like the final sentence in the link, where the writer exhorts his readers as follows:
"Don’t elude yourself, this discussion will never end.") Jul 22, 2008
chained_bear I like this graph, because it's a Wordie list in a gif. Jul 22, 2008