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say it: deen
dean is a noun meaning "an administrator in charge of a division of a university or college". It is pronounced /ˈdin/ — deen. It carries 4 recorded senses.
an administrator in charge of a division of a university or college
United States film actor whose moody rebellious roles made him a cult figure (1931-1955)
a man who is the senior member of a group
“he is the dean of foreign correspondents”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dean come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.