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DON JUAN

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

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)

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