dean

Meanings

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 canons.
3. The senior member of some group of people.

1. To serve as a dean.
2. To send (a student) to see the dean of a college or university.

1. A hill.

1. Alternative form of dene.

1. A title afforded to a dean.
2. A surname
3. A habitational surname from Middle English from Middle English dene “valley”.
4. A surname from Irish
5. A surname from Scottish
6. A surname originating as an occupation
7. A surname transferred from the given name
8. A male given name
9. A male given name transferred from the surname
10. A male given name originating as an occupation derived from the title.
11. A placename:
12. A place in the United Kingdom:

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.