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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

professor Related Forms

pro′·fes·so′·rial (prō′fə sôr′ē əl, prä′-) adjective pro′·fes·so′·ri·ally adverb pro·fes′·sor·ship′ noun or pro·fes′·sor·ate--it

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.

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.
  • emeritus: In 1883 he left the active service of the London Hospital, and became emeritus professor of surgery at the Hospital's medical school.
  • assistant: Newman received his medical degree in 1970 from the University of Toronto, where he is now an assistant professor.
  • eminent: Eminent princeton professor than dick morris was arranged the now being offered.
  • honorary: In 1979 Davis visited the Soviet Union where she was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize and made a honorary professor at Moscow State University.
  • absent-minded: Do the stereotypes of the absent-minded professor or the'mad ' scientist come out of thin air?

Modifies a noun

  • emeritus: Douglas Johnson is professor emeritus of French History, University of London.
  • mila: University professor mila individuals who arrived decision to purchase individual insurance markets.

Noun used with modifier

  • princeton: Eminent princeton professor than dick morris was arranged the now being offered.
  • associate: Last year I had been present during the annual review of associate professors for tenure.
  • physics: Only 15 out of 450 UK physics professors are women.
  • university: Merit pay often amounts to two or three times the base salary of university professors.

Preposition: of

  • physic: Keith Barnham is a professor of physics at Imperial College London.
  • sociology: Frank Furedi is professor of sociology at the University of Kent.
  • mathematics: Ian Stewart Ian Stewart is professor of mathematics at Warwick University.
  • economics: He himself had been a professor of economics at the University of Queensland.
  • psychology: Then he became an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Denver ( Colorado ).
  • botany: It has been since much improved by Dr. Sherrard, who assigned 3000 l. for the maintenance of a professor of botany.