English department
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- noun
- /ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ dɪˈpɑːrtmənt/
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departamento de inglés
- Henry is in the English department.
- English department chair
- English department at universities
- English department graduate
And so I knew one of my my friends who was in the English department, his wife was a professor there.
- And so I knew one of my my friends who was in the English department, his wife was a professor there.
- Gary Senior Lecturer in the English Department and hosts the Writers Speak series at the Mahindra Humanity Centre.
- Yes, it turns out that my book already inspired APHD student at Harvard in the English department to pursue a PhD in that direction.
Examples
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Donald Gutierrez is professor emeritus in the English department at Western New Mexico University.
Academic text (2006) -
Not something the head of the English department should do.
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And so I knew one of my my friends who was in the English department, his wife was a professor there.
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Well, we have news in the English department.
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Why do you want to be head of the English department?
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I work in the English department.
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Together with the chair of the English department, I developed an anonymous online survey.
Academic text (2015) -
He's one of the bright stars of our English department.
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I happen to be Professor Ashton, head of the English department at Rutland college, and a very important person there.
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I work in the English department at the university, where we focus on literature and writing.
Synonyms
A part of a school or university that teaches and studies English language and literature
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an academic department for English language and literature' is directly and compositionally derived from 'English' (the subject) + 'department' (an organizational unit). This noun+noun/adj+noun pattern is cross-linguistically common (e.g. Spanish 'departamento de inglés', French 'département d'anglais'), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
English department comes from the idea of a department as one part of a school and English as the subject, so picture a place where all the teachers, books and classes about English are together. That's why it means 'the group at a college or university that teaches English language and literature'.