dean

dean
dean1
—deanship, n.
/deen/, n.
1. Educ.
a. the head of a faculty, school, or administrative division in a university or college: the dean of admissions.
b. an official in an American college or secondary school having charge of student personnel services, such as counseling or discipline: the dean of men.
c. the official in charge of undergraduate students at an English university.
2. Eccles.
a. the head of the chapter of a cathedral or a collegiate church.
b. Also called vicar forane. a priest in the Roman Catholic Church appointed by a bishop to take care of the affairs of a division of a diocese.
3. the senior member, in length of service, of any group, organization, profession, etc.: the dean of lexicographers.
[1300-50; ME deen < AF deen, dean, OF deien < LL decanus chief of ten, equiv. to L dec(em) ten + -anus -AN]
dean2
/deen/, n. Brit.
dene.

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(as used in expressions)
Acheson Dean Gooderham
Darlington Cyril Dean
Dean Dizzy
Dean James Byron
Dean John Wesley III
Howells William Dean
Rusk David Dean

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