Definitions for Dean

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Dean dean

Spelling: [deen]

IPA: /din/

Dean is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 41 anagrams from letters in Dean (aden).

Definitions for Dean

noun

1. Education. the head of a faculty, school, or administrative division in a university or college: an official in an American college or secondary school having charge of student personnel services, such as counseling or discipline: the official in charge of undergraduate students at an English university.
2. Ecclesiastical. the head of the chapter of a cathedral or a collegiate church. 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.:
4. dene.
5. James (Byron) 1931–55, U.S. actor.
6. Jay Hanna ("Dizzy") 1911–74, U.S. baseball pitcher.
7. a male given name: from the Old English family name meaning “valley.”.
8. a bare, sandy tract or low sand hill near the sea.

Origin of Dean

1300-50; Middle English deen Anglo-French deen, dean, Old French deien Late Latin decānus chief of ten, equivalent to Latin dec(em) ten + -ānus -an

Examples for Dean

Until then, however, you had better come into the house with Miss dean and me.

dean Todd remained my friend until I graduated in 1988, with my degree in English literature.

dean Sybil Todd passed away from pancreatic cancer before she could testify.

He needs a clerk for his law matters, and the dean said he would speak of me to him.

(It's worth noting that dean himself has already endorsed Clinton).

dean Todd arranged for me to sit behind a screen and talk about my rape for a group of student leaders and activists.

Canevari passed me off to dean Sybil Todd, who accompanied me to the University Police Department.

"We shall be obliged to look into the matter," declared the dean.

She disliked the idea of meeting Evelyn in the dean's office.

Tis none other that the dean sets forth, ay, and the book that I have here.