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Dons

Proper noun

Meaning

(soccer) Aberdeen Football Club, a football club based in Aberdeen, Scotland.

(soccer) Wimbledon Football Club, a defunct football club based in London.

(soccer) AFC Wimbledon, a football club based in London, founded by the supporters of Wimbledon FC.

(soccer) Milton Keynes Dons F.C., a football club based in Milton Keynes, England.

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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything. Samuel Butler (novelist)

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family. Gustave Flaubert

I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life. A. N. Wilson

The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks his outworn body and dons a new one. He continues his journey. Steven Pressfield

A 1-0 win over St Johnstone steadied the ship and a 3-0 defeat to the Dons at the weekend is not going to prompt Kettlewell to make wholesale adjustments. Source: Internet

Aberdeen beat the Sons 1-0 in the quarter-final of the competition in 2014 and the Dons boss expects wily campaigner Jim Duffy to have his side well prepared for their trip north. Source: Internet

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