Noun: dean
Sample Sentences
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Lucretius versus the Lake Poets ' Nature I loved ; and next to Nature , Art . '
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Dean , adult education may seem silly .
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What of it though ? I got some willy - nilly
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The other evening at your college deanery .
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And grateful for it ( Let's not be facetious!)[…] [1995 October 26, Robert Frost, Richard Poirier, Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, & Plays (LOA #81) (DE-601)374069697: Library of America series), Library of America, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 357:]
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dean of the diplomatic corps - a country's most senior ambassador
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dean of the House - the longest-serving member of a legislature
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All of the switchboard operators had been parties to it, including Marie Willis. Their dean, Alice Hart, collected[…] [1955 October 19, Rex Stout, The Next Witness, Three Witnesses, 94 Bantam, →ISBN, page 67:]
Nouns inflected like dean
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English den, deen (“dean”), from Anglo-Norman deen and continental Old French deien (modern French doyen), from Latin decānus. Doublet of doyen. See: Middle English Nouns '
den', French Nouns '
doyen', Latin Nouns '
decānus'.
Verbs referencing "dean"
Irish Nouns
déan.