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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

Latin n?ntius (“envoy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?n?i?o?/

Noun

nuncio (plural nuncios)

1. (Roman Catholicism) The ecclesiastic title of a permanent diplomatic representative of the Roman Catholic Church to a sovereign state or international organization, who is accorded a rank equivalent to an accredited ambassador, and may also be given additional privileges including recognition as Dean in a country's diplomatic corps.
2. (by extension) One who bears a message; a messenger.
3. (historical) Any member of any Sejm of the Kingdom of Poland, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Galicia (of the Austrian Partition), Duchy of Warsaw, Congress Poland, or Grand Duchy of Posen.

Derived terms

• nuncioship
• nunciotist

Related terms

• internuncio
• nunciature
• Pro-nuncio (defunct since 1991)

Translations

References

• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st ed.), volume VI (L–N), part ii (M–N, 1908), § 2 (N, ed. William Alexander Craigie), page 263 s.v. “Nuncio”

Further reading

• nuncio on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• uncoin

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?nu?n.ki.o?/, [?nu??kio?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?nun.t??i.o/, [?nun??t??i?]

Noun

n?nci? m

1. dative singular of n?ncius
2. ablative singular of n?ncius

References

• nuncio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin n?ntius.

Noun

nuncio m (plural nuncios)

1. messenger
2. (Catholicism) nuncio