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Webster 1913 Edition
Dean
Dean
,Noun.
1.
A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop.
Dean of cathedral church
, the chief officer of a chapter; he is an ecclesiastical magistrate next in degree to bishop, and has immediate charge of the cathedral and its estates.
– Dean of peculiars
, a dean holding a preferment which has some peculiarity relative to spiritual superiors and the jurisdiction exercised in it.
[Eng.]
– Rural dean
, one having, under the bishop, the especial care and inspection of the clergy within certain parishes or districts of the diocese.
2.
The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college.
Shipley.
3.
The head or presiding officer in the faculty of some colleges or universities.
4.
A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department.
[U.S.]
5.
The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony;
as, the
; – so called by courtesy. dean
of the diplomatic corpsCardinal dean
, the senior cardinal bishop of the college of cardinals at Rome.
Shipley.
– Dean and chapter
, the legal corporation and governing body of a cathedral. It consists of the dean, who is chief, and his canons or prebendaries.
– Dean of arches
, the lay judge of the court of arches.
– Dean of faculty
, the president of an incorporation or barristers; specifically, the president of the incorporation of advocates in Edinburgh.
– Dean of guild
, a magistrate of Scotch burghs, formerly, and still, in some burghs, chosen by the Guildry, whose duty is to superintend the erection of new buildings and see that they conform to the law.
– Dean of a monastery
, Monastic dean
a monastic superior over ten monks.
– Dean’s stall
. See
Decanal stall
, under Decanal
.Webster 1828 Edition
Dean
DEAN
, n.Definition 2024
déan
déan
Irish
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dʲeːnˠ/
- (Aran) IPA(key): /dʲiːn/
- (Cois Fharraige) IPA(key): /dʲiːn/, /dʲɪn/
Verb
déan (present analytic déanann, future analytic déanfaidh, verbal noun déanamh, past participle déanta)
- (transitive, intransitive) do
- (transitive) make
Conjugation
Conjugation of déan
* Indirect relative
† Dialect form
The forms rinne and dearna lose their final vowel in Ulster, becoming rinn and dearn.
For Munster forms, see dein.
In the older literary language, Aran, and Ulster, the present indicative and past habitual have independent forms built on the stem ní- (also spelled ghní-); the déan- forms listed above are only dependent in the present and habitual.
| singular | plural | relative | autonomous | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||
| indicative | present independent | ním | ní tú; níonn tú; nír |
ní sé, sí; níonn sé, sí |
nímid; ní muid; níonn muid |
ní sibh; níonn sibh |
ní siad; níonn siad; níd |
a ní; a níonn; a níos |
níthear |
| past habitual independent | nínn | nítheá | níodh sé, sí | nímis; níodh muid |
níodh sibh | nídís; níodh siad |
a níodh | nítí | |
Derived terms
- bainis a dhéanamh (“to hold a wedding, celebrate a marriage”)
- déan cneámhaireacht ar, déan caimiléireacht ar (“cheat”)
- déanach
Verb
déan
- (archaic) first-person singular future dependent of déan
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dʲeːnˠ/
Noun
déan m (genitive singular déin, nominative plural déin)
Declension
Declension of déan
First declension
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Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| déan | dhéan | ndéan |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- "déan" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Franz Nikolaus Finck, 1899, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, 84.
- “do·gní” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.