Don Juan

Related to Don Juan: Don Giovanni

Don Juan

A man who has a reputation for seducing many women. If you're going to date Mark, be careful. I heard he's a bit of a Don Juan.
See also: don
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • lady killer
  • lady-killer
  • all wound up
  • mack daddy
  • enough said
  • dont
  • be in a (blue) funk
  • be in a blue funk
  • in a blue funk
  • in a funk
References in periodicals archive
In no way did Leontine's charms escape Don Juan. He knew obstacles stood in his path but Nature, more powerful than social convention and of such masculine vigor as to destroy instead of strengthening them, raised a tumult in his heart that he found impossible to silence.
The Crime of Passion or, Love's Delirium: a Spanish story
In an interesting and well-documented article on literary myths, Philippe Sellier (1984: 112-126) argues that both the myths that shape Western mythologies, even the oldest ones (Ancient Greek, Roman, Hebrew) and the new myths (Faust, Don Juan) share the following set of common features: firstly, they rest on symbolic constructs that elicit emotions in human beings; that is, they move the receiver, and this symbolic foundation provides myths with a very rich indeterminacy in meaning, an exceptional polyvalence.
Renderings of Don Juan in Valle-Inclan
The findings refute the dominant interpretation of Don Juan Pond's origin.
World's saltiest pond may hold clues to water on Mars
Dona Ana, Don Juan's former paramour, and I was her father, the
Gore and Norman in provincetown
At Shooter's and Don Juan, the immediate concern Monday was the preservation of refrigerated goods in the absence of electrical power.
Suspected arson damages businesses
Valle-Inclan himself states that, in the figure of Don Juan Manuel de Montenegro, he aims to renew "the Galician aspects to be found in the Don Juan legend." Insisting on the features which, in his eyes, are characteristic of Don Juan--"impiety, bullying, and women"--Valle-Inclan writes that "this last one, the Don Juan of women, is the Seville Don Juan, nostalgia of a harem.
The Don Juan myth in Iberian Galician literature
In a post-Christian world that has lost interest in the problem of sin and salvation, Don Juan is passe.
Divine Justice
The early Don Juan offered commentators the opportunity to weigh in on society's morals, argues Hart, a First Things contributing editor.
The demise of Don Juan
strictly heterosexual sex offender, Don Juan is a bad fit for
Dangerous liaisons: Don Juan and philosophy (reflections on an evening with a lady's man)
Don Juan Du Gouet showed promise when a running-on fifth of 14 in a 2m novice hurdle on good ground at this course in February and that was a strong race run in a decent time.
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Don Juan's legend was brought into existence by the Spanish dramatist Tirso de Molina in his play The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest, teaching life-changing lessons about paying for sins before death.
The last days of Don Juan
1888 ndash Boarding the ship Don Juan in Tondo for Hong Kong, Rizal scrutinized the crew for a fellow-Tagalog he could trust with a delicate mission.
Smuggling at Customs during Bonifacio's time