Don Juan

[don wahn, dawn hwahn, don joo-uhn]

noun

1. a legendary Spanish nobleman famous for his many seductions and dissolute life.

2. a libertine or rake.

3. a ladies' man; womanizer.

4. (italics),  an unfinished epic satire (1819–24) by Byron.

Don Juan

/ ˈdɒn ˈdʒuːən, don xwan /

noun

1. a legendary Spanish nobleman and philanderer: hero of many poems, plays, and operas, including treatments by de Molina, Molière, Goldoni, Mozart, Byron, and Shaw

2. a successful seducer of women

Don Juan

¹

1. An obsessive and unscrupulous pursuer of women: “He charms all his female colleagues; he is the Don Juan of the office.” From the legendary nobleman who seduced hundreds of women and was eventually damned for his immoral ways.

Don Juan

²

1. A legendary Spanish nobleman and chaser of women; he first appears in Spanish literature in the seventeenth century. Many authors and composers have depicted him: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in the opera Don Giovanni; Lord Byron, in the long poem “Don Juan”; and George Bernard Shaw, in the play Man and Superman.