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Don Juan

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Don Juan (wn, hwn, jn)
n.
1. A libertine; a profligate.
2. A man who is an obsessive seducer of women.
[After Don Juan, legendary 14th-century Spanish nobleman and libertine.]
Don Juan
Noun
a successful seducer of women [after the legendary Spanish philanderer]
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Noun1.Don JuanDon Juan - a legendary Spanish nobleman and philanderer who became the hero of many poems and plays and operas
2.Don Juan - any successful womanizer (after the legendary profligate Spanish nobleman)
Espana, Kingdom of Spain, Spain - a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power
philanderer, womaniser, womanizer - a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them
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