The word 'dean' is correct and usable in written English.
Usually, it is used to refer to someone who oversees an academic department or college. For example, "The dean of the business school held a meeting with all the faculty members."
Andrew Hussey is dean of the London University Institute in Paris and author of The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and its Arabs (Faber, 2014) and Paris: The Secret History (Viking, 2006).
He is former dean of the faculty of arts and humanities, professor of literature, and director of the centre for creative and performing arts at the University of East Anglia.
Tomorrow, the dean of Canterbury and I share a platform.
Paul Goldberger, the former architecture critic of the New Yorker and former dean of the prestigious Parsons design college in New York, now a contributor to Vanity Fair, sent out a tweet saying that her lawsuit was unwise and would gain her a reputation as "the architect who sues critics".
The canon, chaplain and dean of St Paul's have all resigned.
Nitin Nohria, the dean of the Harvard Business School, said the donation would place Boston at the centre of US innovation and "make those people on the West Coast tremble".
Dean Richards, Newcastle's director of rugby, had a king-sized rant after the match at the decision by the referee, Greg Garner, to show yellow cards five minutes before the end to his lock Josh Furno and the London Irish flanker Jebb Sinclair.
Nevada Republican Dean Heller, a co-sponsor of the bill, told reporters early on Friday: "We're losing the 'politics of going home' argument with our conference".
Gregory returned to management in England for the first time in six years when he took over at Crawley in 2013 and it is a source of frustration that surgery prevented him from seeing the job through – Dean Saunders was appointed on an interim basis in December – and having a shot at keeping the club in League One.
Then, on Easter Sunday, David Cameron created his version of Lambing Live, bottle-feeding and gently nuzzling a lamb at Dean Lane Farm in his Oxfordshire constituency.
The world's highest-paid authors, according to Forbes, are: James Patterson, $84m Danielle Steel, $35m Stephen King, $28m Janet Evanovich, $22m Stephenie Meyer, $21m Rick Riordan, $21m Dean Koontz, $19m John Grisham, $18m Jeff Kinney, $17m Nicholas Sparks, $16m Ken Follett, $14m Suzanne Collins, $10m JK Rowling, $5m.
