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What (who) is dean - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Dean (disambiguation); Dean (name); Dean (singer); DEAN; Dean (musician)
dean
(deans)
1.
A dean is an important official at a university or college.
She was Dean of the Science faculty at Sophia University.
N-COUNT
2.
A dean is a priest who is the main administrator of a large church.
...Alan Webster, former Dean of St Paul's.
N-COUNT
Dean
·noun The head or presiding officer in the faculty of some colleges or universities.
II. Dean ·noun The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as, the dean of the diplomatic corps;
- so called by courtesy.
III. Dean ·noun A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department.
IV. Dean ·noun A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; ·esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop.
V. Dean ·noun The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college.
dean
dean1
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1. the head of the chapter of a cathedral or collegiate church.
(also rural dean) Brit. a member of the clergy exercising supervision over a group of parochial clergy within a division of an archdeaconry.
2. the head of a university faculty or department or of a medical school.
a college officer with a disciplinary role.
Derivatives
deanery noun (plural deaneries).
Origin
ME: from OFr. deien, from late L. decanus 'chief of a group of ten', from decem 'ten'; cf. doyen.
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dean2
¦ noun variant spelling of dene1.
Examples of use of dean
1. Defenders dismiss it all as just Howard Dean being Howard Dean.
2. For 1' years before that, he was a dean, assistant dean and faculty member.
3. This is precisely what congressional leaders and Dean agreed Dean wouldn‘t do when he became party chair.
4. "Everyone wants to be Howard Dean as Howard Dean was in 2003 in terms of raising money," Elmendorf said.
5. Helen Lange, dean, business management programs, U21Global.