Definition of Dean

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Definition of Dean

Dean

A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop.

The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college.

The head or presiding officer in the faculty of some colleges or universities.

A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department.

The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as, the dean of the diplomatic corps; -- so called by courtesy.

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Dean Quotations

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
Soren Kierkegaard

I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.
Elvis Presley

Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.
Dean Koontz

I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin.
Joe E. Lewis

I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.
John Travolta

When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary.
Red Buttons

I'm a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day.
Ville Valo

Young Jimmy Dean fell off the world as suddenly as he had come.
Mercedes McCambridge

Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic?
Robert Novak

Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.
Sheryl Crow

Dean Translations

dean in Danish is dekan
dean in Dutch is deken, decaan
dean in French is doyen
dean in German is Dekan
dean in Portuguese is decano
dean in Swedish is domprost, prost, dekanus

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