professor
IPA: prʌfˈɛsɝ
noun
- The most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution.
- (US, Philippines, informal) A teacher or faculty member at a college or university regardless of formal rank.
- (archaic) One who professes something, such as a religious doctrine.
- (US, slang) A pianist in a saloon, brothel, etc.
- The puppeteer who performs a Punch and Judy show; a Punchman.
- The title for someone who holds the job of professor
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Examples of "professor" in Sentences
- Since you use the term professor Anderson, perhaps you can answer a simple question.
- Everyplace I have worked or attended reserves the term professor for those that are TT.
- As you know, writing can be very isolating, and my day job as a professor is also pretty solitary.
- He was typically hands-on with the venture, teaching classes until recently and sporting the title professor of polymathy.
- Yup, it's our own nutty professor, or at least he would be a nutty professor if he was a professor* at all, Dr David Hirsh.
- Kalisch is keeping the title professor of Islam, but many of its functions will be transferred to the new professor of Islamic religious education.
- Interesting misdirect as my comments were to explore why the Discovery Institute chose to use the title professor of biochemistry rather than chemistry in a press release in which Skell questions Darwinism.
- In using the term "professor," she's drawing upon and shaping her identity as an instructor both on and off campus, and some may find that problematic if she's mistakenly seen as representing the university in her stage act.
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