Dean is a title given to some institutions' senior or supervisory staff:

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• In a university, a dean is often the head of a division, faculty, college, or school. See academic administration.
• In a school, a dean may have a counseling role and enforce discipline.
• In diplomacy, the title Dean of the Diplomatic Corps is sometimes given to the most senior ambassador in a country's diplomatic corps.
• In politics, the title Dean of the House is sometimes given to the most senior member of a country's legislature.
• A dean is a title used in various religious capacities, mainly in the Anglican Communion and Roman Catholic Church
• In the Faculty of Advocates, in Scotland, Dean is the title given to the head of the body of counsel (called Advocates in Scotland.)

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In geography, Dean is a common place name, meaning 'valley':

• Dean, Bedfordshire
• Dean, Cumbria
• Dean, Devon
• Dean, Dorset
• Dean, Hampshire
• Dean, Oxfordshire
• Dean, Somerset
• Dean Prior, Devon
• Dean Row, Greater Manchester
• Deane, Greater Manchester
• Deane, Hampshire
• East Dean, East Sussex
• East Dean, Hampshire
• East Dean, West Sussex
• Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire
• Hedgerley & Dean, Buckinghamshire
• West Dean, Hampshire
• West Dean, West Sussex

There are some notable people who are referred to by the name "Dean": The inner harbour, Brixham, south Devon, at low tide Devon is a large county in South West England, bordering on Cornwall to the west, Dorset and Somerset to the east. ... Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in England established in 1974 which covers an area roughly encompassing the conurbation surrounding the City of Manchester. ... The (Royal) Forest of Dean is a region in the county of Gloucestershire, England. ... Gloucestershire (pronounced ; GLOSS-ter-sher) is a county in southwest England. ... Hedgerley & Dean is a parish in south Buckinghamshire, England. ... Map of Bucks (1904) Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is a county in South East England. ...

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