DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does department of English mean? 

• DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH (noun)
  The noun DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH has 1 sense:

1. the academic department responsible for teaching English and American literature

  Familiarity information: DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The academic department responsible for teaching English and American literature

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

department of English; English department

Hypernyms ("department of English" is a kind of...):

academic department (a division of a school that is responsible for a given subject)