Synonyms:
dean
Meaning: an administrator in charge of a division of a university or college
Usage examples
"It's not over at all," said the dean.
"Remember her position," said Mrs. Dean to her son.
"Oh, Frank, it would be impossible!" said Mrs. Dean.
Oxford had given way, and the Dean of Christ Church was a creature of James's choosing.
The Scottish Bishops, in great dismay, sent the Dean of Glasgow to plead the cause of their persecuted Church at Westminster.
The dean and the dean's wife and the dean's daughters had been her best friends, but they were not friends on whom she could be dependent.
"Then it's all over," said Lucy to the dean with her pretty smile,--that smile which caused all the old and middle-aged men to fall in love with her.
Mrs. Dean was a very good woman, but she had aspirations in the direction of filthy lucre on behalf of her children, or at least on behalf of this special child, and she did think it would be very nice if Frank would marry an heiress.
He was troubled to think of his poor wife and children, whom he had left in the hands of Mrs. Harriet Dean, three quarters of a mile from New Market; but it was easier for him to imagine plans by which he could get them off than to incur the hazard of going back to Maryland; therefore he remained in freedom.
In the course of the altercation the dean remarked that he "might as well buy the taxicab." He paid and walked off, but next morning he entered his private office to find the taxicab itself in the space usually occupied by his desk, bearing a sign which read "Property of Dean Hollister. Bought and Paid for."...