dean
IPA: dˈin
noun
- 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.
- (Sussex, chiefly in place names) A hill.
- A title afforded to a dean.
- (countable) A habitational surname from Middle English from Middle English dene “valley”.
- (countable) A male given name transferred from the surname or originating as an occupation derived from the title.
- A placename:
- Any of various villages and hamlets in England:
- A village and civil parish in Allerdale borough, Cumbria (OS grid ref NY0725).
- A hamlet in Kentisbury parish, North Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SS6245).
- A hamlet in West Down parish, North Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SS5042).
- A hamlet in Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge parish, east Dorset (OS grid ref ST9715).
- A hamlet in Bishop's Waltham parish, Winchester district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU5619).
- A hamlet in Sparsholt parish, Winchester district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU4431).
- A hamlet in Spelsbury parish, West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SP3422).
- A hamlet in Cranmore parish, Mendip district, Somerset (OS grid ref ST6744).
- A small township in the Shire of Hepburn, central Victoria, Australia.
- A small community in the Musquodoboit Valley, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- A number of places in the United States:
- An unincorporated community in Monterey County, California.
- An unincorporated community in Appanoose County, Iowa.
- A ghost town in Lander County, Nevada.
- A township and village therein, in Cambria County, Pennsylvania.
- A minor city in Clay County, Texas.
- (Northumbria, chiefly in place names) Alternative form of dene. [(Northumbria) a valley, especially the deep valley of a stream or rivulet]
verb
- (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.
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Examples of "dean" in Sentences
- The current Dean is the Reverend.
- The Dean is at the Head of the Class.
- Harry plays the cop and Dean the prisoner.
- Panda is currently the Dean of the college.
- Herbert Dean was the husband of his stepmother.
- He was the first dean of the faculty of economics.
- He was the dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Bordeaux.
- Unfortunately, naming White as dean is not such a step.
- A list of the holders of the office of Dean of Westminster.
- He is the dean of the faculty of orthodontics of this hospital.
- Dean Marymount is the Dean of Waverly who is a stickler for rules.
- CHARLES II. playing at tennis with a dean, who struck the ball well, the king said, "That's a good stroke for a _dean_."
- For 11-year-old Malak Abu Stani (ph) -- Native Dean, dean is Arabic for religion and way of life -- put fun back into faith.
- Nothing in the email in actually controversial, except to ignorant or hypocritical lawyers and other laypeople; the dean is a pretentious fool.
- While each arm-chair dean is entitled to his or her own opinion on the matter, I'd say sardonic observations and a surface knowledge of such matters does not an expert make.
- C. Maoxian: @dean: Thanks for contributing the boilermaker numbers. dean: A construction boilermaker makes $100,000 a yr and a boilermaker general forman is making around $140K / yr ....
- In 1973, after nearly 10 years in Afghanistan, Gouttierre was invited by the University of Nebraska to lead the newly launched Afghanistan program, with the title dean of international studies.
- Mr. Broder was often called the dean of the Washington press corps - a nickname he earned in his late 30s in part for the clarity of his political analysis and the influence he wielded as a perceptive thinker on political trends in his books, articles and television appearances.
- Mr. Broder was often called the dean of the Washington press corps -- a nickname he earned in his late 30s in part for the clarity of his political analysis and the influence he wielded as a perceptive thinker on political trends in his books, articles and television appearances.