Definition of "deans" [deans]

• Plural form of dean. (noun)

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• "It would seem that at first the deans were the oldest masters."
• "Superintendent of Schools Jim Yancey also has said that media specialists and most peer counselors, known as deans, will be reinstated for next school year, as well."
• "And yet, as I show in my newspaper column out today, if there was still any shred of doubt that we had avoided becoming an Idiocracy, it was only fully snuffed out in the last week by David Broder and Jackson Diehl - two of the alleged "deans" of the Washington media intelligentsia."