Oxbridge Don
A don is a fellow or tutor of a college or university, especially traditional collegiate universities such as Oxford and Cambridge in England, and Delhi University in India.
The term—similar to the title still used for Catholic Priests—is a historical remnant of Oxford and Cambridge having started as ecclesiastical Catholic institutions in the Middle Ages.
Famous quotes containing the word don:
“Don here-and-there, Don epileptic;
Don puffed and empty, Don dyspeptic;
Don middle-class, Don sycophantic,
Don dull, Don brutish, Don pedantic;”
—Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)