deanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English den, deen (“dean”), from Anglo-Norman deen and continental Old French deien (modern French doyen), from Latin decānus. Doublet of doyen.

名詞

dean (複数形 deans)

1. 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).
   • 1995 October 1, Robert Frost, Richard Poirier, Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, & Plays (LOA #81) (DE-601)374069697: Library of America series)‎^[1], Library of America, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 357:

     Lucretius versus the Lake Poets ' Nature I loved ; and next to Nature , Art . '
     Dean , adult education may seem silly .
     What of it though ? I got some willy - nilly
     The other evening at your college deanery .
     And grateful for it ( Let's not be facetious!) […]

2. A dignitary or presiding officer in certain church bodies, especially an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop, in charge of a chapter of canons.
3. 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, Rex Stout, "The Next Witness", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, →ISBN, page 67:

     All of the switchboard operators had been parties to it, including Marie Willis. Their dean, Alice Hart, collected […]

同意語

• (Head of cathedral chapter): provost

派生語

• dean and chapter
• deanery
• deaness
• rural dean

関連する語

• decanal
• doyen (doublet)

動詞

dean (三人称単数 現在形 deans, 現在分詞 deaning, 過去形および過去分詞形 deaned)

1. (intransitive, rare) To serve as a dean.
2. (transitive, Oxbridge, otherwise rare, informal) To send (a student) to see the dean of a college or university.

語源 2

Related to den.

名詞

dean (複数形 deans)

1. (Sussex, chiefly in place names) A hill.

名詞

dean (複数形 deans)

1. (Northumbria, chiefly in place names) Alternative form of dene.

アナグラム

• Aden, Dane, Dena, Edna, Enda, Nead, aden-, ande, eDNA, nade