Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
contraction of do not, recorded from 1630s.
Wiktionary
contraction (contraction of do not English) interj. stop!, Don't do that! n. Something that must not be done {{qualifier|1=usually in the phrase (term dos and don'ts English)}}.
Wikipedia
"Don't" is a song performed by Elvis Presley, which was released in 1958. Written and produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, it was Presley's eleventh number-one hit in the United States. "Don't" also peaked at number four on the R&B charts. Billboard ranked it as the No. 3 song for 1958.
The song was included in the musical revue Smokey Joe's Cafe, as a medley with " Love Me".
Don't may refer to:
Don't is a 1974 short American documentary film following the life cycle of the Monarch butterfly, directed by Robin Lehman. It won an Academy Award at the 47th Academy Awards in 1975 for Documentary Short Subject.
"Don't" is a song written by Jim Beavers and Jonathan Singleton, and recorded by American country music artist Billy Currington. It was released in July 2008 as the first single from his album Little Bit of Everything. The song is Currington's fifth Top Ten entry on the Hot Country Songs charts, having entered Top Ten on the chart week of December 13, 2008.
The song is part of the track list for Now That's What I Call Country Volume 2.
Don't (1925) is a comedy film directed by Alfred J. Goulding, starring Sally O'Neil, John Patrick, Bert Roach, and Ethel Wales, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film is one of the B pictures the studio produced to keep the Loews circuit and other cinemas supplied.
The screenplay by Agnes Christine Johnston is based on the story 'Don't You Care!' by Rupert Hughes. This film is considered a lost film.
"Don't" is a song recorded by English singer-songwriter, Ed Sheeran, for his second studio album, × (2014). Written by Sheeran and Benny Blanco and produced by Blanco and Rick Rubin, the song samples " Don't Mess with My Man" by Lucy Pearl. It was initially planned as the album's lead single, but was passed over in favour of " Sing". It was instead released to iTunes on 13 June 2014 as the second "instant grat" promotional single from ×. "Don't" officially impacted US contemporary hit radio on 15 July 2014 and was released independently on 24 August 2014 as the album's second single.
"Don't" peaked at No. 8 on the UK Singles Chart. In the US, it became Sheeran's first top 10 single. It also made the top 10 in eight other countries.
"Don't" is the debut single by American singer Bryson Tiller. It was released on May 20, 2015, as the first single for his debut studio album Trapsoul. The song was produced by DopeBoi. Lyrically, at the start of the second verse, the song samples " Shake It Off" by Mariah Carey. This song peaked at number 13 on the US Billboard Hot 100, where it became Tiller's first top 40 hit and his highest charting single to date.
Usage examples of "don't".
We don't go in there for a meeting unless his secretary sprays the place with air-freshener.
My big problem this summer, aside from life and death, is that I don't have any classes to stay away from.
They don't go into a dark cellar without expecting to be strangled by a zombie.
It was like a religious ceremony but full of ironies you don't find in most religions.
He sang me a song then, out there on deck in the darkness, barely voicing the words, a glimmer of Ireland and Scotland and even Shakespeare in his accent, and I don't think he even knew he was singing aloud.
In the meantime, don't do anything detrimental to the national incest.
I know from New Mexico, Bobby from New Mexico, made me promise to tell you he knows where to get some unbelievable hash that you can have for nothing and you don't even have to talk to him.
The night I finally got to the package was some terrific night because I don't know how many guys go charging up and down the stairs making animal sounds and stomping with their feet.
Why do you think I don't have a chauffeur when my counterparts in the industry on both coasts have chauffeurs?
But I have to admit I don't know what service Hanes might be in a position to render Happy Valley.
Ordinarily I don't mind getting softly drunk next to the slowly collapsing heap that is Mum, but I have to go back to boarding school the next day, nine hours by pickup across the border to Zimbabwe.
Cows that don't conceive have their tails cut to differentiate them from the fertile cows, whose tails are left long.
Mum and Dad don't use the siren except to announce their arrival at parties.
The cells don't have windows but there are little slots on the door and in front of the door there are two fenced off yards, like the yards at the SPCA where we sometimes go to rescue dogs to add to the pack.
My fleabites are tiny, the kind of bites you get when you are used to fleas so they don't bother you so much anymore.