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▸ noun:  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).
▸ noun:  A dignitary or presiding officer in certain church bodies, especially an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop, in charge of a chapter of canons.
▸ noun:  The senior member of some group of people.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, rare) To serve as a dean.
▸ verb:  (transitive, Oxbridge, otherwise rare, informal) To send (a student) to see the dean of a college or university.
▸ noun:  (Sussex, chiefly in place names) A hill.
▸ noun:  A title afforded to a dean.
▸ noun:  (countable) A habitational surname from Middle English from Middle English dene “valley”.
▸ noun:  (countable) A male given name transferred from the surname or originating as an occupation derived from the title.
▸ noun:  A placename:
▸ noun:  Any of various villages and hamlets in England:
▸ noun:  A village and civil parish in Allerdale borough, Cumbria (OS grid ref NY0725).
▸ noun:  A hamlet in Kentisbury parish, North Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SS6245).
▸ noun:  A hamlet in West Down parish, North Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SS5042).
▸ noun:  A hamlet in Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge parish, east Dorset (OS grid ref ST9715).
▸ noun:  A hamlet in Bishop's Waltham parish, Winchester district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU5619).
▸ noun:  A hamlet in Sparsholt parish, Winchester district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU4431).
▸ noun:  A hamlet in Spelsbury parish, West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SP3422).
▸ noun:  A hamlet in Cranmore parish, Mendip district, Somerset (OS grid ref ST6744).
▸ noun:  A small township in the Shire of Hepburn, central Victoria, Australia.
▸ noun:  A small community in the Musquodoboit Valley, Nova Scotia, Canada.
▸ noun:  A number of places in the United States:
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Monterey County, California.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Appanoose County, Iowa.
▸ noun:  A ghost town in Lander County, Nevada.
▸ noun:  A township and village therein, in Cambria County, Pennsylvania.
▸ noun:  A minor city in Clay County, Texas.
▸ noun:  (Northumbria, chiefly in place names) Alternative form of dene. [(Northumbria) a valley, especially the deep valley of a stream or rivulet]

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