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dean | dan |

As a verb dean

is do.

As a noun dean

is dean.

As an adjective dan is

stretched.

dean

English

(wikipedia dean)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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 ).
  • A dignitary or presiding officer in certain church bodies, especially an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop, in charge of a chapter of canon.
  • 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
  • * 1955 , edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 67:
    • All of the switchboard operators had been parties to it, including Marie Willis. Their dean , Alice Hart, collected
  • (Sussex) a hill (chiefly place names).

    • Related terms

    * decanal

    Derived terms

    * dean and chapter * deaness

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To serve as a dean.
  • To send (a student) to see the dean of a university.

    • Anagrams

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    dan

    English

    (dan rank)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A rank of black belt in martial arts
  • Someone who has achieved a level of black belt

    • Etymology 2

    Uncertain.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mining) A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.

    • Etymology 3

    (etyl)

    Noun

  • (obsolete)
  • * Spenser
    • Old Dan Geoffry, in gently spright / The pure wellhead of poetry did dwell.
  • * Thomson
    • What time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee land.
    (Webster 1913)

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