dean vs elder

dean and elder both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dean	Yes	No	No	No
elder	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, elder is a hypernym of dean; that is, elder is a word with a broader meaning than dean:

Other hypernyms of dean include senior.

dean (noun)	elder (noun)
an administrator in charge of a division of a university or college	a person who is older than you are
(Roman Catholic Church) the head of the College of Cardinals	any of various church officers
a man who is the senior member of a group	any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical Northern Hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit

dean (adjective)	elder (adjective)
	used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son