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Definition von don juans im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
- plural form of Don Juan
- Don Juan
- A man who obsessively seduces women; a philanderer
James has three girlfriends; he's a real Don Juan.
- Don Juan
- If you describe a man as a Don Juan, you mean he has had sex with many women. a man who is good at persuading women to have sex with him (Character in Spanish stories). Fictional character famous as a heartless womanizer but also noted for his charm and courage. In Spanish legend, Don Juan was a licentious rogue who seduced a young girl of noble family and killed her father. Coming across a stone effigy of the father in a cemetery, he invited it home to dine with him, and the ghost of the father arrived for dinner as the harbinger of Don Juan's death. The legend of Don Juan was first written down by Tirso de Molina, who gave it an original twist in his tragedy The Seducer of Seville (1630). The story was subsequently taken up by many other artists including W.A. Mozart, in the opera Don Giovanni (1787); Molière and George Bernard Shaw, in plays; and Lord Byron in his long satiric poem Don Juan (1819-24)
- Don Juan
- womanizer, man who loves to pursue women; Don Juan Tenorio, mythical Spanish nobleman known for his temptation of women; (Slang) marijuana
- don juan
- any successful womanizer (after the legendary profligate Spanish nobleman)
- don juan
- a legendary Spanish nobleman and philanderer who became the hero of many poems and plays and operas
- don juan
- any successful womanizer (after the legendary profligate Spanish nobleman) a legendary Spanish nobleman and philanderer who became the hero of many poems and plays and operas