dean
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Etymology [edit]
From Anglo-Norman deen < Old French deien < Latin decānus.
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dean (plural deans)
- A senior official in a college or university, who may be in charge of a division or faculty (for example, the dean of science) or have some other advisory or disciplinary function (for example, the dean of students).
- A dignitary or presiding officer in certain church bodies, especially an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop, in charge of a chapter of canon.
- The senior member of some group of people.
- dean of the diplomatic corps - a country's most senior ambassador
- dean of the House - the longest-serving member of a legislature
- 1955, Rex Stout, "The Next Witness", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 67:
- All of the switchboard operators had been parties to it, including Marie Willis. Their dean, Alice Hart, collected […]
- (Sussex) a hill (chiefly place names).
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senior official in college or university
church dignitary
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senior member of a group
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Verb [edit]
dean
- third-person plural present subjunctive of dar