Deaned vs Denned - What's the difference?
deaned | denned |
(dean)
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.
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(Sussex) a hill (chiefly place names).
A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; especially, a cave used by a wild animal for shelter or concealment.
A squalid or wretched place; a haunt.
A comfortable room not used for formal entertaining.
(UK, Scotland, obsolete) A narrow glen; a ravine; a dell.
(reflexive) To ensconce or hide oneself in (or as in) a den.
(a unit of weight)
As verbs the difference between deaned and denned
is that deaned is (dean) while denned is (den).deaned
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Verb
(head)dean
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(wikipedia dean)Noun
(en noun)- dean of the diplomatic corps - a country's most senior ambassador
- dean of the House - the longest-serving member of a legislature
- All of the switchboard operators had been parties to it, including Marie Willis. Their dean , Alice Hart, collected
Derived terms
* dean and chapter * deanessAnagrams
* * * ----denned
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den
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) den, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- a den of robbers
- Daniel was put into the lions’ den .
- a den of vice
- an opium den'''; a gambling '''den
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