dean
noun[C]
uk/diːn/us/diːn/deannoun[C](LEADER)
anofficialof highrankin acollegeoruniversitywho isresponsiblefor theorganizationof adepartmentordepartments:
系主任;学院院长She is the new dean of the Faculty ofSocialSciences.她是社会科学院的新任院长。
the Dean of Medicine医学系系主任
US
someone among agroupofpeoplewho hasworkedthelongestin theparticularjoboractivitytheyshare, and who istheirunofficialleader:
(某行业或活动中的)元老,前辈,资深人物Parsons is the dean of the TVnewscorrespondentsat Channel Nine.帕森斯是9频道电视新闻记者中的元老。
University & college education
- academe
- academia
- anti-university
- beadle
- business school
- grad
- graduate
- hall
- hall of residence
- honour
- Oxon
- pass degree
- poly
- polytechnic
- post-college
- the groves of academeidiom
- trimester
- varsity
- vice chancellor
- warden
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Teachers
People in charge of or controlling other people
deannoun[C](CHURCH)
apriestof highrankin theChurchofEnglandor theRomanCatholicChurch, who is inchargeofmanagingalargechurchorcathedral
(英格兰圣公会的)主任牧师;(天主教的)枢机主教长Religious leaders & officials
- anti-papal
- apostolic
- archbishop
- archbishopric
- archdeacon
- clerical
- confessor
- curacy
- curate
- ministry
- muezzin
- mullah
- non-clerical
- padre
- priestly
- primate
- rabbi
- rabbinical
- rector
- the Dalai Lama