ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does English department mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENGLISH DEPARTMENT (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 ("English department" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

I have heard, also, that he was slated for the head of the English department, only the affair happened and he resigned and went away.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)