Dean
[din]
Definition
(noun.) an administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
(noun.) (Roman Catholic Church) the head of the College of Cardinals.
(noun.) a man who is the senior member of a group; 'he is the dean of foreign correspondents'.
(noun.) United States film actor whose moody rebellious roles made him a cult figure (1931-1955).
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Definition
(n.) A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop.
(n.) The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college.
(n.) The head or presiding officer in the faculty of some colleges or universities.
(n.) A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department.
(n.) The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as, the dean of the diplomatic corps; -- so called by courtesy.
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Definition
n. a dignitary in cathedral and collegiate churches who presides over the other clergy: the president of faculty in a college; the chief chaplain of the Chapel Royal: the chief judge of the Court of Arches: the president of a trade-guild.—ns. Dean′ery the office of a dean: a dean's house; Dean′ship the office or dignity of a dean.—Dean of Arches dean of the Court of Arches (see Arch); Dean of Faculty president of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland: Dean of Guild a municipal functionary in Scotland who has authority over building and altering of houses.—Rural dean one who under the bishop has the special care and inspection of the clergy in certain parishes.
n. a small valley.—Also Dene.
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Examples
- Allston took him to England, and there introduced him to Benjamin West, the dean of painters and a man who was always eager to aid young countrymen of his who planned to follow his career. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In 1854 he was appointed Dean of the F aculty of Sciences at Lille, a town then officially described as the richest center of industrial activity in the n orth of France. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Becoming a dean or even a bishop would make little difference, I fear, to Mr. Casaubon's uneasiness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Thus Dr. Clayton, Dean of Kildare, Ireland, in 1688 distilled gas from coal and lit and burned it, and told his learned friend, the Hon. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- On Sundays, and at periods of a solemn nature, Mrs. O'Dowd used to read with great gravity out of a large volume of her uncle the Dean's sermons. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He believes, like Dean Herbert, that species, when nascent, were more plastic than at present. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Herbert, Dean of Manchester, evidently the result of his great horticultural knowledge. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Dean Swift would have taken you 'for a lady of England! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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