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dekan

dekan is the alternative form of decan.

Meaning of decan

Noun

decan (plural decans)

  1. One of a collection of 36 small constellations or zodiacal subdivisions that appear heliacally at intervals of 10 days or are separated by approximately 10 degrees.

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Forms of dekan

pluraldekans

Questions about dekan

What is dekan the alternative form of?
Dekan is the alternative form of decan.

Words near dekan in the dictionary

  1. dekalogy
  2. dekameter
  3. dekameters
  4. dekametre
  5. dekametric
  6. dekan
  7. Dekanovec
  8. dekans
  9. dekaparsec
  10. dekaparsecs
  11. dekar

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dekan (page history and authors); decan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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