different between dean vs duan

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di?n/
• IPA^(key): [d??n], enPR: d?n (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?)
• Rhymes: -i?n
• Homophone: dene

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman deen, from Old French deien (which became doyen in modern French), from Latin dec?nus. Doublet of doyen.

Noun

dean (plural deans)

1. 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).
2. A dignitary or presiding officer in certain church bodies, especially an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop, in charge of a chapter of canons.
3. The senior member of some group of people.

   dean of the diplomatic corps - a country's most senior ambassador

   dean of the House - the longest-serving member of a legislature

   • 1955, Rex Stout, "The Next Witness", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 67:

     All of the switchboard operators had been parties to it, including Marie Willis. Their dean, Alice Hart, collected […]

Synonyms

• (Head of cathedral chapter): provost

Derived terms

• dean and chapter
• deanery
• deaness

Related terms

• decanal
• doyen

Translations

Verb

dean (third-person singular simple present deans, present participle deaning, simple past and past participle deaned)

1. (intransitive, rare) To serve as a dean.
2. (transitive, rare, informal) To send (a student) to see the dean of a university.

Etymology 2

Related to den.

Noun

dean (plural deans)

1. (Sussex, chiefly in place names) A hill.

Anagrams

• Aden, Dane, Dena, Edna, Enda, aden-, ande, eDNA, nade

Basque

Noun

dean

1. inessive singular of de

Friulian

Etymology

From Late Latin dec?nus, from Latin decem (“ten”). Compare Italian decano, Venetian degàn, French doyen.

Noun

dean m (plural deans)

1. (religion) dean
2. doyen

Related terms

• dîs

Galician

Verb

dean

1. third-person plural present subjunctive of dar

English

Etymology

From Goidelic (Irish and Scottish).

Noun

duan (plural duans)

1. A division of a poem corresponding to a canto.
2. A poem or song.

Anagrams

• Danu, Duna, Düna

Albanian

Verb

duan

1. third-person plural present indicative of dua

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Adjective

duan

1. accusative singular of dua

Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *d?ewg?-. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

duan m (genitive singular duain, nominative plural duanta)

1. poem
2. song

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "duan" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Mandarin

Romanization

duan

1. Nonstandard spelling of du?n.
2. Nonstandard spelling of du?n.
3. Nonstandard spelling of duàn.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Old Frisian

Verb

du?n

1. Alternative spelling of dw?

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *d?ewg?-.

Noun

duan m (genitive singular duain, plural duain)

1. poem
2. song

Synonyms

• dàn, òran