A beloved person; a term of endearment.

A senior official in a college or university, who may be in charge of a division or faculty (for example, the dean of science) or have some other advisory or disciplinary function (for example, the dean of students).

(intransitive, rare) To serve as a dean. / (transitive, Oxbridge, otherwise rare, informal) To send (a student) to see the dean of a college or university.

(Sussex, chiefly in place names) A hill.

(Northumbria, chiefly in place names) Alternative form of dene.

One who deals in goods, especially automobiles; a middleman. / A drug dealer, one who peddles illicit drugs. / A particular type of stock broker or trader.

(transitive) To make deaf, either temporarily or permanently. / (transitive) To make soundproof. / (transitive, rare, dialectal, sometimes figuratively) To stun, as with noise.

(cricket) The bat when held with a light grip such that it gives when the ball strikes it, and the ball loses momentum and falls to the ground.

(transitive, cricket) To play (the ball) with a dead bat.

(ball games) The ball when dead and out of play.