department of english

1. 1.

   the academic department responsible for teaching English and American literature

   SynonymsEnglish department

   Broaderacademic department

Questions about department of english

What does department of english mean?

department of english means "the academic department responsible for teaching English and American literature".

What is another word for department of english?

Close synonyms include English department. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is department of english a common word?

department of english is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.