Noun

(en noun)

In the Church of England, the priest of a parish, receiving a salary or stipend but not tithes.

* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=

, title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=20 citation , passage=Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli.}}

*, chapter=12

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}

*{{quote-book, year=1997, author=(Frank Muir), chapter=1, isbn=0552141372

, title= A Kentish Lad , passage=For this [annual choir outing] the vicar traditionally hired a brake, an ancient, Edwardian, horse-drawn, bus-like vehicle which had plodded along for many years between Ramsgate and Pegwell Bay, carrying passengers who were in no hurry, until it became so unroadworthy that no horse could be persuaded to pull it on a regular basis.}}

In the Roman Catholic and some other churches, a cleric acting as local representative of a higher ranking member of the clergy.

A person acting on behalf of, or is representing another person.

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).