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"DEANS" is a plural of: dean. |
Date "DEANS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
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Literature | Deans (Effie), in Scott's Heart of Midlothian, is Helen Walker. She is abandoned by her lover, Geordie Robertson [Staunton], and condemned for child-murder. Jeanie Deans. Half-sister of Effie Deans, who walks all the way to London to plead for her sister. She is a model of good sense, strong affection, and disinterested heroism. (See Walker.) "We follow Pilgrim through his progress with an interest not inferior to that, with which we follow Elizabeth from Siberia to Moscow, and Jeanie Deans from Edinburgh to London." - Lord Macaulay. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: DEANS |
| English words defined with "DEANS": Very Reverend. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "DEANS": Canonical Dress ♦ INFIDEL. (references) |
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Civil Liberties | Egypt | Under the previous law, faculty deans were elected by their peers. (references) |
Ethiopia | In addition the Government requires that it appoint all deans and the presidents at all eight public universities. (references) | |
Egypt | However, some university professors claim that the Government tightened its control over universities in 1994 through a law authorizing university presidents to appoint the deans of the various faculties. (references) | |
Economic History | Guatemala | Supreme Court justices are elected by the Congress from a list submitted by the bar association, law school deans, a university rector, and appellate judges. (references) |
Human Rights | Guatemala | The Constitution requires that Congress elect all Supreme Court and appellate court magistrates every 5 years from lists prepared by panels composed of active magistrates, representatives of the bar association, law school deans, and university rectors. (references) |
Minorities | Egypt | There are no Christians serving as governors, university presidents, or deans. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | INFIDEL, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does. (See GIAOUR.) A kind of scoundrel imperfectly reverent of, and niggardly contributory to, divines, ecclesiastics, popes, parsons, canons, monks, mollahs, voodoos, presbyters, hierophants, prelates, obeah-men, abbes, nuns, missionaries, exhorters, deacons, friars, hadjis, high-priests, muezzins, brahmins, medicine-men, confessors, eminences, elders, primates, prebendaries, pilgrims, prophets, imaums, beneficiaries, clerks, vicars-choral, archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, preachers, padres, abbotesses, caloyers, palmers, curates, patriarchs, bonezs, santons, beadsmen, canonesses, residentiaries, diocesans, deans, subdeans, rural deans, abdals, charm-sellers, archdeacons, hierarchs, class-leaders, incumbents, capitulars, sheiks, talapoins, postulants, scribes, gooroos, precentors, beadles, fakeers, sextons, reverences, revivalists, cenobites, perpetual curates, chaplains, mudjoes, readers, novices, vicars, pastors, rabbis, ulemas, lamas, sacristans, vergers, dervises, lectors, church wardens, cardinals, prioresses, suffragans, acolytes, rectors, cures, sophis, mutifs and pumpums. |
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| "DEANS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 54.63% of the time. "DEANS" is used about 108 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 54.63% | 59 | 44,010 |
| Noun (proper) | 45.37% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Total | 100.00% | 108 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "DEANS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Deans | Last name | 2,000 | 6,974 |
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| Language | Translations for "DEANS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
French | Association européenne des doyens en sciences (European Association of Deans of Sciences). (various references) | |
German | Dekane. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eansday.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DEANS": deanship, deanships. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "DEANS": antipodeans, proboscideans, subdeans. (additional references) | |
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"DEANS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Adeanes, Adegasn, daana, daens, dans, D'ans, danz, deafs, Deanesy, deanish, Deanos, deant, deany, deash, Deasy, deats, deban, decans, deejs, deens, Degasn, deinos, dejan, dena, denars, denase, densy, deon, depants, Desano, deun, dewan, dewans, Deyan, deyans, Deyns, dians, dions, diwans, doans, Douanes, dpans, dsean, Edas, edens. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DEANS" (pronounced dē"nz) |
| 4 | d ē" n z | Denes, sardines. |
| 3 | -ē" n z | convenes, beans, canteens, careens, cleans, cuisines, demeans, eighteens, fifteens, figurines, fourteens, gasolines, genes, greens, intervenes, jeans, latrines, leans, liens, machines, marines, means, nitrosamines, peens, preteens, Queens, ravines, reconvenes, scenes, screens, sixteens, skeens, smithereens, sunscreens, teens, vaccines. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: saned, sedan. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-n-s" | |
-1 letter: ands, anes, dean, dens, ends, sade, sand, sane, send, sned. | |
-2 letters: ads, and, ane, den, eds, end, ens, nae, sad, sae, sea, sen. | |
-3 letters: ad, ae, an, as, de, ed, en, es, na, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-n-s" | |
+1 letter: amends, anodes, ascend, dances, davens, dedans, denars, desand, desman, dewans, elands, kneads, ladens, menads, naleds, redans, sadden, sained, sanded, sander, sedans, sendal, snaked, snared, snawed, staned, sundae. | |
+2 letters: acnodes, addends, adenyls, advents, agendas, anadems, aniseed, ansated, appends, ascends, asunder, attends, augends, badness, banders, bandies, basined, bedamns, bedpans, bendays, calends, candies, candles, daemons, damners, dampens, dancers, danders, dandies, dandles, dangers, dangles, dankest, danseur, daphnes, dapsone, darkens, darnels, darners, dasheen, daysmen, deacons, deadens, deafens, decanes, decants, deewans, defangs, demands, demeans, denials, dentals, desands, descant, deskman, desmans, destain, detains, donates, duennas, dyspnea, encased, endears, endways, enneads, errands, expands, fadeins, ganders, gardens, glandes, gnashed, handles, handsel, handset, hardens, incased, instead, invades, kalends, lagends, landers, maddens, madness, maenads, maidens, masoned, medians, medinas, medusan, monades, naiades, noyades, panders, pandies, pedants, pentads, randies, remands, saddens, sadness, sainted, sanders, sandier, sandmen, sardine, scanned, scanted, seedman, sendals, shanked, sideman, slander, slanged, slanted, snacked, snafued, snagged, snailed, snapped, snarled, sneaked, sneaped, spandex, spanked, spanned, spawned, speaned, stained, standee, stander, stanged, subdean, sundaes, swanked, swanned, tandems, unasked, unbased, uncased, unlades, unleads, unsated, unsaved, unsawed, wanders, wardens, weasand, wessand, zanders. | |
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