a legendary Spanish nobleman and philanderer: hero of many poems, plays, and operas, including treatments by de Molina, Molière, Goldoni, Mozart, Byron, and Shaw a successful seducer of women
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Don Juan
(don wän′ or, Sp., dôn hwän′ for 1, 2; esp. for 4 don jo̅o̅′ən),USA pronunciation
- Literaturea legendary Spanish nobleman famous for his many seductions and dissolute life.
- Literaturea libertine or rake.
- Literaturea ladies' man;
womanizer. - Literature(italics) an unfinished epic satire (1819–24) by Byron.
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'Don Juan' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Casanova
- Don Juanism
- Lothario
- Strauss
- Zorrilla y Moral
- antonomasia
- de Molina
- ottava rima