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dean

/deen/US // din //UK // (diːn) //

院长,教务长,教务主任,教长

Related Words

senior高级,高级职员,长者,高层professor教授administrator管理者,管理员,管理人,管理人员legislator立法者,立法委员,立法人员,立法人principal主要的,主要内容,主要负责人,主要lead领导,导致,领先,牵头dignitary要人,政要,显要人物,显贵authority权力,权力机构,权力机关,大权在握tack粘性,大头钉,大头针,粘着president总统,总裁,主席,总统先生guide指南,指导,导读,导游ecclesiastic教会主义,教士,教会的,教会pilot飞行员,试点,试验,实验doyen老头子,老年,老头儿,老友

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Education. the head of a faculty, school, or administrative division in a university or college: the dean of admissions.an official in an American college or secondary school having charge of student personnel services, such as counseling or discipline: the dean of men.the official in charge of undergraduate students at an English university.
    • : Ecclesiastical. the head of the chapter of a cathedral or a collegiate church.Also called vicar forane. a priest in the Roman Catholic Church appointed by a bishop to take care of the affairs of a division of a diocese.
    • : the senior member, in length of service, of any group, organization, profession, etc.: the dean of lexicographers.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounleader of institution
Synonyms
administrator管理者,管理员,管理人,管理人员legislator立法者,立法委员,立法人员,立法人principal主要的,主要内容,主要负责人,主要professor教授senior高级,高级职员,长者,高层president总统,总裁,主席,总统先生authority权力,权力机构,权力机关,大权在握dignitary要人,政要,显要人物,显贵doyen老头子,老年,老头儿,老友ecclesiastic教会主义,教士,教会的,教会guide指南,指导,导读,导游lead领导,导致,领先,牵头pilot飞行员,试点,试验,实验tack粘性,大头钉,大头针,粘着

Examples

  • He later led the US Geological Survey’s Volcano Hazards Program, before returning to UAF in 2012 to become dean of the graduate school.

  • Eastman parted ways with Chapman University, where he served as dean of the law school, after speaking at the rally.

  • It’s still unclear if that’s the case, however, and clinical trials that could help figure that out are still ongoing, Dean says.

  • Thomas Rashad Easley, assistant dean of community and inclusion at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, knows how narrow the routes in can be.

  • From their car, Silveti and Dean watched as the Soviets waved the truck into the station, unchecked.

  • (It's worth noting that Dean himself has already endorsed Clinton).

  • Dean Todd arranged for me to sit behind a screen and talk about my rape for a group of student leaders and activists.

  • Dean Sybil Todd passed away from pancreatic cancer before she could testify.

  • Dean Todd remained my friend until I graduated in 1988, with my degree in English literature.

  • Canevari passed me off to Dean Sybil Todd, who accompanied me to the University Police Department.

  • Dean Swift was indeed a misanthrope by theory, however he may have made exception to private life.

  • Several uneducated business men are said to have written to the Dean asking the Latin for what they think of the new Budget.

  • Away they hastened; and, being admitted to the Dean's study, stated the occasion of their visit.

  • To all of this Mr Dean listened in perfect silence, patiently, and with a smile of universal benevolence.

  • You see, up to that time he had thought himself rather a knowing fellow; but Mr Dean managed to remove the scales from his eyes.

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