Dean

Noun

 * 1) 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)
 * 2) a dignitary or presiding officer in certain church bodies, especially an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop, in charge of a chapter of canon
 * 3) 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
 * 1) *1955, Rex Stout, "The Next Witness", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 67:
 * All of the switchboard operators had been parties to it, including Marie Willis. Their dean, Alice Hart, collected
 * 1)  a hill (chiefly place names).

Related terms

 * decanal

Derived terms

 * dean and chapter
 * deaness

Adjectives
callous; pompous; incompetent; meticulous; impeccable; impinging; smug.

Thesaurus
A per se, Grand Penitentiary, Holy Father, abuna, academic dean, ace, administration, administrator, antipope, archbishop, archdeacon, archon, archpriest, bellwether, bishop, bishop coadjutor, boss, canon, cardinal, cardinal bishop, cardinal deacon, cardinal priest, champion, chancellor, chaplain, chief, chief executive, chief executive officer, coadjutor, commander, curate, dean of men, dean of women, diocesan, doyen, doyenne, ecclesiarch, elder, eldest, exarch, executive, executive director, executive officer, executive secretary, father, first-born, firstling, fugleman, genius, guide, head, headmaster, headmistress, hierarch, high priest, higher-up, important person, kingfish, kingpin, laureate, lead, leader, magistrate, management, managing director, master, metropolitan, nonpareil, officer, official, older, oldest, papa, paragon, patriarch, penitentiary, personage, pilot, pontiff, pope, prebendary, prefect, prelate, president, prexy, primate, principal, prodigy, provost, rector, ruler, rural dean, secretary, senior, sire, star, subdean, suffragan, superior, superman, superstar, the administration, the greatest, the most, top dog, treasurer, vicar, vice-chancellor, vice-president, virtuoso, warden

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: dene
 * Homophones: dene
 * Homophones: dene

Translations

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 * German: Dekan, Dekanin
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 * Portuguese: reitor
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 * Bulgarian: главен свещеник
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Anagrams

 * Aden
 * Dane
 * Edna