Dean

·noun The head or presiding officer in the faculty of some colleges or universities.

II. Dean ·noun The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as, the dean of the diplomatic corps;

— so called by courtesy.

III. Dean ·noun A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department.

IV. Dean ·noun A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; ·esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop.

V. Dean ·noun The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college.