dean

[din]

解释

※ 提供单词"dean"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

dean 主任牧师，系主任

来自拉丁语decanus, 修道院管理十个人的牧师，词源同ten, December.后词义通用化。

dean: dean: [14] Etymologically, a dean is someone in charge of a group of ten people. That was the meaning of its ancestor, Greek dekānós, a word formed from déka ‘ten’. This eventually came to designate specifically someone in charge of ten monks, and this sense passed via late Latin decānus, Old French deien, and Anglo-Norman deen into English as the ‘head of a cathedral’. The modern French descendant of deien, doyen, was reborrowed into English in the 17th century.
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dean (n.): early 14c., from Old French deien (12c., Modern French doyen), from Late Latin decanus "head of a group of 10 monks in a monastery," from earlier secular meaning "commander of 10 soldiers" (which was extended to civil administrators in the late empire), from Greek dekanos, from deka "ten" (see ten). Replaced Old English teoðingealdor. College sense is from 1570s (in Latin from late 13c.).

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1. Stan Dean, easily identifiable by his oddly-shaped hat, sat in a doorway.: 斯坦·迪安坐在门口，他那顶奇形怪状的帽子一下子就让人认出他来。

5. I'm making inquiries about the circumstances of Mary Dean's murder.: 我在调查玛丽·迪安谋杀案的详情。