dean
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /diːn/
- IPA(key): [dĩːn], enPR: dēn (Can we verify(+) this pronunciation?)
- Rhymes: -iːn
- Homophone: dene
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman deen, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French deien (which became doyen in modern French), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin decānus.
Noun
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 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, Rex Stout, "The Next Witness", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, →ISBN, page 67:
- All of the switchboard operators had been parties to it, including Marie Willis. Their dean, Alice Hart, collected […]
Synonyms
- (Head of cathedral chapter): provost
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Translations
senior official in college or university
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church dignitary
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senior member of a group
Verb
dean (third-person singular simple present deans, present participle deaning, simple past and past participle deaned)
- (intransitive, rare) To serve as a dean.
- (transitive, rare, informal) To send (a student) to see the dean of a university.
Etymology 2
Related to den.
Noun
dean (plural deans)
Anagrams
Friulian
Etymology
From Late Latin decānus, from Latin decem (“ten”). Compare Italian decano, Venetian degàn, French doyen.
Noun
dean m (plural deans)
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Galician
Verb
dean
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