Don't

//dəʊnt// contraction, intj, noun, verb

contraction, intj, noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Chiefly in dos and don'ts: something that must or should not be done.

    "Among the don'ts he had done before he was twenty-one were peyote, alcohol, mescaline, and Methedrine."

Verb
  1. 1
    do not (negative auxiliary).

    "Don't you think mom's awfully busy today?"

  2. 2
    does not. nonstandard

    "Blessed are the poor in spirit, saies he. Blessed are those that mourn. He don't say, Blessed are those that rejoyce; or, Blessed are those that have the Assurance of Gods love; or, Blessed are those that are strong in Grace: No, but doest thou know a poor weak, Christian, a mourning soul like a Dove of the Valleys; saies the Lord, I blesse him."

  3. 3
    Used before an emphatic negative subject.

    "Don’t nobody care."

Intj
  1. 1
    Stop!
Contraction
  1. 1
    Contraction of done + it. abbreviation, alt-of, archaic, contraction

Synonyms

All synonyms
doesn't

Antonyms

All antonyms
do

Example

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"I don't know if I have the time."

Etymology

From do + -n't. Depending on dialect, its use in the third-person singular may be from elision (in these dialects "does" is used when not in the negative) or from not using -s to mark the third-person singular at all.

Related phrases

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