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pro·fes·sor (prō fes′ər, prə-)

noun

  1. a person who professes something; esp., one who openly declares his sentiments, religious beliefs, etc.
    1. a college or university teacher of the highest academic rank; full professor
    2. assistant professor & associate professor
    3. loosely any college, university, or, occas., secondary-school teacher
  3. ☆ any person claiming or assumed to be especially skilled or experienced in some art, sport, etc.: a popular or humorous usage

Etymology: ME professoure < L, teacher < professus: see profess

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professor Synonyms

professor

n.

teacher, schoolmaster, pedagogue, educator, faculty member, dominie, pundit, don (British), savant, sage; see also teacher 2.

Types of professors include: full, associate, assistant, professor emeritus, professor emerita, visiting, instructor, lecturer, tutor, fellow, teaching fellow, master docent.


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professor Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • appoint: In 1776, at the age of 23, he was appointed professor at Edinburgh University.

Preposition: at

  • nova: Stress on your professor at nova the guests with pounds pot with.

Adjective modifier

  • adjunct: I am also an adjunct professor at Arizona State University.

Modifies a noun

  • emeritus: Douglas Johnson is professor emeritus of French History, University of London.

Noun used with modifier

  • princeton: Eminent princeton professor than dick morris was arranged the now being offered.

Preposition: of

  • physic: Keith Barnham is a professor of physics at Imperial College London.
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Greater lovethanthis,hesaid, nomanhaththat a manlay down his wife for his friend.Go thou and do likewise. Thus, or words to that effect, saith Zarathustra, sometime regius professor of French letters to the university of Oxtail.

-Joyce,James Augustine Aloysius

I am what is called a professor emeritusöfrom the Latin e,'out', and meritus,'so he ought to be'.

-Leacock, Stephen Butler

[Jeremy] Bentham held no post at the mercy of bankers and tripe sellers; he was a man of independent means, a lawyer and politician and a heretic in general practice. It is impossible to imagine such a man occupying a chair at Harvard or Princeton.Hehad a hand intoomany pies; he was too rebellious and contumacious; he had too little respect for authority, either academic or worldly. Moreover, his mind was too wide for a professor; he Mencken could never remain safely in a groove; the whole field of social organization invited his inquiries and experiments.

-Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)

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