Donald
A male given name from Scottish Gaelic.
Proper noun
- A male given name from Scottish Gaelic.
- "Country?" replied Cuddie; "ou, the country's weel eneugh, and it werena that dour deevil, Calver'se, ( they ca' him Dundee now) that's stirring about yet in the Highlands, they say, with a' the Donalds, and Duncans,...
- My friends call me Terry. My husband always used my full name, Teresa. He said it made him feel like he was married to a foreign woman. And I never called him Don or Donny or Donny Joe. I called him Donald from the...
- Donald Duk never liked his name. He hates his name. He is not a duck. He is not a cartoon character. - - - "Only the Chinese are stupid enough to give a kid a stupid name like Donald Duk," Donald Duk says to himself. -...
- A surname.
- A place name:
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An unincorporated community in Long County, Georgia, United States.
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An unincorporated community in the town of Pershing, Taylor County, Wisconsin, United States.
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A community regarded as a ghost town west of Golden, British Columbia, Canada.
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A town in the Shire of Buloke, western Victoria, Australia.
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Origin
Name of Scottish kings and an early saint, from Scottish Gaelic Dòmhnall and reinforced by Medieval Latin Donvaldus ~ Donaldus, from Old Irish Domnall, from Proto-Celtic *Dubnowalos (“prince / chief of the world”). Doublet of Domhnall.
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Dolina Don Donald Creek Donald Duck ⇒ Donald Trumpesque ⇒ Donald Trumpian ⇒ Donald Trumpish →⇒ donaldtrumpi Donald Trump The Donald Donalda Donaldina Donaldson Donalds Donna Donnie Donny
Noun
- Abbreviation of Donald Trump (“a dump, an act of defecation”).
- ‘But I'm overdue for a Donald. You lot squabble amongst yourselves.’ He stole Catherine's newspaper on the way out. - 2018, Mick Herron, London Rules, Baskerville 2022, p. 119