Definition of English department

1. Noun. The academic department responsible for teaching English and American literature.

Exact synonyms: Department Of English
Generic synonyms: Academic Department

Lexicographical Neighbors of English Department

English Civil War
English English
English Midlands
English Revolution
English bean
English billiards
English bond
English bonds
English breakfast tea
English bulldog
English cavalry saddle
English cocker spaniel
English covenants
English daisy
English department (current term)
English disease
English elm
English foxhound
English hawthorn
English horn
English horns
English iris
English ivy
English lady crab
English language
English lavender
English muffin
English muffins
English oak

Literary usage of English department

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report by Cincinnati (Ohio), Board of Education, Cincinnati Public Schools, Cincinnati (Ohio). Board of Education (1881)
"As a result of admitting only those who are well qualified, the graduating class in the English department was twenty-four less than that of the preceding ..."

2. Annual Report by Cincinnati (Ohio), Cincinnati Public Schools, Cincinnati (Ohio). Board of Education, Board of Education (1833)
"All pupils desiring to pursue the study of arithmetic, algebra, geography, and history, shall be transferred for that purpose into the English department, ..."

3. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1915)
"And in two minor ways the English department can work with other departments of ... In some instances, the English department helped in the training of the ..."

4. The Quarterly Journal of Public Speaking by National Association of Academic Teachers of Public Speaking (U.S.) (1917)
"The classes are combined, the instructor from the English department takes the class for part of the semester, the instructor from the department of Speech ..."

5. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1922)
"... as 8.3 points when taken from the head of one English department to the head of another English department in- these North Central Association schools, ..."

6. Annual Report by Cincinnati (Ohio), Board of Education, Cincinnati Public Schools, Cincinnati (Ohio). Board of Education (1881)
"As a result of admitting only those who are well qualified, the graduating class in the English department was twenty-four less than that of the preceding ..."

7. Annual Report by Cincinnati (Ohio), Cincinnati Public Schools, Cincinnati (Ohio). Board of Education, Board of Education (1833)
"All pupils desiring to pursue the study of arithmetic, algebra, geography, and history, shall be transferred for that purpose into the English department, ..."

8. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1915)
"And in two minor ways the English department can work with other departments of ... In some instances, the English department helped in the training of the ..."

9. The Quarterly Journal of Public Speaking by National Association of Academic Teachers of Public Speaking (U.S.) (1917)
"The classes are combined, the instructor from the English department takes the class for part of the semester, the instructor from the department of Speech ..."

10. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1922)
"... as 8.3 points when taken from the head of one English department to the head of another English department in- these North Central Association schools, ..."

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