dean
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
an administrator in charge of a division of a university or college
Types & categories
- academic administrator hypernym
Related & opposite
- deanship derivation
Sense 2 noun
a man who is the senior member of a group
he is the dean of foreign correspondents
Types & categories
- elder hypernym
Sense 3 noun
(Roman Catholic Church) the head of the College of Cardinals
Types & categories
- cardinal hypernym
Related & opposite
- deanship derivation
- Western Church domain topic
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | deanship |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | academic administrator |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | elder |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | deanship |
| 3 | domain topic | Related & opposite | Western Church |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | cardinal |