Dekan
German, noun/deˈkaːn/
Dekan is a German masculine noun meaning “dean (senior official at a university; male or unspecified gender)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Vorsteher und Sprecher einer Fakultät oder eines Fachbereichs an einer Hochschule”.
What does Dekan mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedean (senior official at a university; male or unspecified gender)
- 2
masculinealternative form of Dechant (“dean”, church official)
noun
- 1
neuterdecane (alternative spelling of) Decan n
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Vorsteher und Sprecher einer Fakultät oder eines Fachbereichs an einer Hochschule 2. in einigen evangelischen Landeskirchen das Oberhaupt eines Kirchenkreises, Kirchenbezirks oder Dekanats, siehe auch Superintendent 3. in der katholischen Kirche der Leiter eines Kirchenbezirks oder Dekanats 4. eine chemische Verbindung aus der Gruppe der Alkane (→Decan)
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Dekan
- Dekans genitive
- Dekane plural
- Dekanin feminine
- Dekanen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Dekan?
- /deˈkaːn/
- [deˈkaːn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Dekan
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Dekan in German?
Dekan appears 4.6 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).