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doyen [doy-en, doy-en] Noun the senior member of a group, profession, or society [French] doyenne How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The largest and best-recognized series in American labor history, its publications mirrored the nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century scholarship of the original series editors, the doyens of the field--David Brody, Herbert G. Today that sort of criticism is rarely voiced by parties this side of the Taliban (although one may suspect that it is written in the hearts of any number of conservatives, ecofeminists, and doyens of political correctness). The ethics doyens at the National Institutes of Health and other places are already occupied answering some of the definitive moral questions of our age, such as questions concerning cloning and stem-cell research. |
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n, dwä-y
nus, chief of ten; see dean.]
doyen - a man who is the senior member of a group; "he is the dean of foreign correspondents"