dean

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Dean stands for:

  • Dean (university) , head and spokesman of a faculty or department
  • Dean (church) or dean , in some churches the head of a regional group of priests or pastors
  • Dean (astrology) , term for one third of each of the 12 sections of the zodiac
  • Dean , rarely used term for a chemical compound from the alkane group, see n-decane
  • Dean , term for a 10-day period in ancient Egypt, see Decade (Ancient Egypt)
  • The Dean , novel by Lars Gustafsson (2003)

People:

  • Anton Dekan (* 1948), Austrian writer and musician
  • Ján Dekan (1919–2007), Slovak archaeologist and historian


See also:

Wiktionary: Dean  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations