dean

noun4

1. •
   a person in charge of a group of subjects or of the students at a college or university
2. •
   A dignitary or presiding officer in certain church bodies, especially an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop, in charge of a chapter of canons.
3. •
   The senior member of some group of people.

   • All of the switchboard operators had been parties to it, including Marie Willis. Their dean, Alice Hart, collected[…] — 1955
4. •
   A hill.

verb2

1. •
   (rare) To serve as a dean.
2. •
   (informal) To send (a student) to see the dean of a college or university.

noun1

1. •
   Ellipsis of Dean Village: A neighbourhood, a former village in Edinburgh, Scotland.