A surname from Middle English, a variant of Dean. / A male given name transferred from the surname.

simple past tense and past participle of dean

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

(countable) A surname. / An unincorporated community in South Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.

plural of Dean

A title afforded to a dean. / (countable) A habitational surname from Middle English from Middle English dene “valley”.

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).

(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.

(Sussex, chiefly in place names) A hill.

plural of dean