| 单词 | a don at |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa don at 3. transferred. A distinguished man; one of position or importance; a leader, first class man. Also (colloquial and dialect) attributive, and in phrase a don at something, i.e. an adept. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > one who is important > one who is distinguished or notable palma1525 somebodya1566 Dona1635 great gun1657 lion1715 bahadur1776 tyee1792 lioness1808 top-sawyer1826 roi soleil1880 a1635 T. Randolph Amyntas ii. v. 40 in Poems (1638) This is a man of skill, an Oedipus, Apollo, Reverent Phoebus, Don of Delphos. 1667 J. Dryden Indian Emperour Epil. The great Dons of Wit. 1768–74 A. Tucker Light of Nature (1852) II. 466 Quotations from the old dons of Greece. 1833 in Westm. Rev. Apr. 445 One of the men..was what was called a ‘don workman’. 1854 Chambers's Jrnl. 2 280 A don at cricket. < as lemmas |
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