deannoun [ C ]
uk/diːn/us/diːn/dean noun [ C ] (LEADER)
an official of high rank in a college or university who is responsible for the organization of a department or departments:
She is the new dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences.
the Dean of Medicine
US someone among a group of people who has worked the longest in the particular job or activity they share, and who is their unofficial leader:
Parsons is the dean of the TV news correspondents at Channel Nine.
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University & college education
- academe
- academia
- academic
- business school
- campus
- Cantabrigian
- grad
- graduate
- grove
- hall of residence
- honour
- intercollegiate
- junior college
- red-brick
- registrar
- semester
- sorority
- student union
- summa cum laude
- varsity
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Teachers
People in charge of or controlling other people
dean noun [ C ] (CHURCH)
a priest of high rank in the Church of England or the Roman Catholic Church, who is in charge of managing a large church or cathedral
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Religious leaders & officials
- archbishop
- archbishopric
- archdeacon
- ayatollah
- bishop
- clerical
- confessor
- curacy
- curate
- deacon
- muezzin
- mullah
- padre
- papal
- parish clerk
- rabbi
- rector
- sexton
- swami
- the Dalai Lama
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