Don Juan

noun

ˈdän-ˈ(h)wän How to pronounce Don Juan (audio)
Definition of Don Juannext
as in womanizer
a man given to seducing women at the hotel bar she was immediately hit on by the local Don Juan

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Recent Examples of Don Juan His decades-long career followed, with credits in titles such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), Sherlock Holmes (1922) and Don Juan (1926). — Nicole Briese, People.com, 22 Feb. 2025 In 2024, the City Council voted in favor of purchasing a vacant property off of Don Juan Avenue to turn it into affordable housing for senior citizens. — Alexcia Negrete, Orange County Register, 18 Feb. 2025 The upper register visually translates the four obstacles to knowledge—fear, clarity, power, and old age—as written in Carlos Castaneda’s The Teachings of Don Juan. — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019

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