Title
- Dean (education)
- Dean (Christianity), persons in certain positions of authority within a religious hierarchy
- The head of a Bar association or equivalent body in some jurisdictions
The title is also given less formally to the longest-serving member of certain groups, as:
- Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, the most senior ambassador in a country's diplomatic corps
- Dean of the House (disambiguation), the most senior member of a country's legislature
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Famous quotes containing the word title:
“All his works might well enough be embraced under the title of one of them, a good specimen brick, “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History.” Of this department he is the Chief Professor in the World’s University, and even leaves Plutarch behind.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Eternity is not ours by right; and, alone, unrequited sufferings here, form no title thereto.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“A familiar name cannot make a man less strange to me. It may be given to a savage who retains in secret his own wild title earned in the woods. We have a wild savage in us, and a savage name is perchance somewhere recorded as ours.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)