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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /diːn/, [diːn], [dĩːn], enPR: dēn
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -iːn
- Homophones: deen, dene, 'dine, Dean
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English den, deen (“dean”), from Anglo-Norman deen and continental Old French deien (modern French doyen), from Latin decānus. Doublet of doyen.
Noun
[edit]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).
- 1995 October, Robert Frost, Richard Poirier, Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, & Plays (LOA #81) (DE-601)374069697: Library of America series)[1], Library of America, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 357:
- Lucretius versus the Lake Poets ' Nature I loved ; and next to Nature , Art . '
Dean , adult education may seem silly .
What of it though ? I got some willy - nilly
The other evening at your college deanery .
And grateful for it ( Let's not be facetious!) […]
- A dignitary or presiding officer in certain church bodies, especially an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop, in charge of a chapter of canons.
- 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 October 19, Rex Stout, The Next Witness, Three Witnesses, 94 Bantam, →ISBN, page 67:
- All of the switchboard operators had been parties to it, including Marie Willis. Their dean, Alice Hart, collected […]
Synonyms
[edit]- (Head of cathedral chapter): provost
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]senior official in college or university
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church dignitary
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senior member of a group
Verb
[edit]dean (third-person singular simple present deans, present participle deaning, simple past and past participle deaned)
- (intransitive, rare) To serve as a dean.
- (transitive, Oxbridge, otherwise rare, informal) To send (a student) to see the dean of a college or university.
Etymology 2
[edit]Related to den.
Noun
[edit]dean (plural deans)
Etymology 3
[edit]Noun
[edit]dean (plural deans)
- (Northumbria, chiefly in place names) Alternative form of dene.
Anagrams
[edit]Basque
[edit]Noun
[edit]dean
Friulian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Late Latin decānus, from Latin decem (“ten”). Compare Italian decano, Venetian degàn, French doyen.
Noun
[edit]dean m (plural deans)
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[edit]Galician
[edit]Verb
[edit]dean
- inflection of dar:
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