It just means a faculty member at Oxford (or less commonly Cambridge). The word has associations to some kind of pre-war idyllic college life... > Don: A profe

It just means a faculty member at Oxford (or less commonly Cambridge). The word has associations to some kind of pre-war idyllic college life... > Don: A professor, a lecturer or a Fellow. https://www.ox.ac.uk/about/organisation/history/oxford-glossary?wssl=1 https://www.ox.ac.uk/about/organisation/history/oxford-gloss...