A title afforded to a dean.

A proper noun "dean" represents various villages, hamlets, townships, and communities in england, australia, canada, and the united states.

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).

A dignitary or presiding officer in certain church bodies, especially an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop, in charge of a chapter of canons.

The senior member of some group of people.

(Sussex, chiefly in place names) A hill.

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

(intransitive, rare) To serve as a dean.

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