professor
/prəˈfɛsə
/noun
1 (North American also full professor) A university academic of the highest rank; the holder of a university chair: [as title]: Professor Goodwin a professor of Art History...
- They supported charitable foundations, gave money to local hospitals and churches, subsidized chairs for university professors.
- Would a chair professor of literature at Yale University be allowed to conduct serially personal liaisons with female graduate students over his entire career across decades?
- But he soon left to join the College of Medicine of the University of Lagos as a lecturer, rising through the ranks to become a professor and head of department of paediatrics.
Synonyms
holder of a chair, chair, head of faculty, head of department;
Regius professor, emeritus professor;
don, academic;
North American full professor, academician
informal prof
2North American A university teacher.The people best positioned to effect this communication are high school teachers, college professors, and fellow students....
- Before joining Stanford in 1998, Hammond was a professor at Columbia University's Teachers College.
- There are, however, times when the balancing act of being both a college professor and a teacher of young children can get frustrating.
3A person who affirms a faith in or allegiance to something: the professors of true religion...
- A suspicion got abroad that the professors of this religion had made use of unfair means to get their doctrines taught to children.
- In a very heart searching way, Bunyan reveals the difference between a true Christian who struggles and fights against sin and a false professor who manifests no spiritual transformation.
- There have been official councils of the church at which professors outnumbered bishops.
Derivatives
professorate
- It has a very negative impact on the professorate because it tends to lead to viewing professors as technicians or people to fill specific job slots.
- That is the way the professorate behaves in the post-scientific age.
- Since the mid-1990s, a raft of research projects has documented the numbers and status of faculty of color in the American professorate.
professoriate
- They should be among the questions discussed by graduate students preparing for the professoriate.
- The existing tenured and tenure-track professoriate cannot reproduce itself in the form of harried part-time faculty.
- It is from this context that college and university faculty come as they enter the profession of the professoriate.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Latin professor, from profess- 'declared publicly', from the verb profiteri (see profess).