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Professor University Made Age Noun Bre Prəˈfesə(R Prəˈfesər

Word professor
WordType (noun)
Phonetic BrE / prəˈfesə(r) / NAmE / prəˈfesər /
Example
  • professor (ann) williams
  • a chemistry professor
  • to be appointed professor of french at cambridge
  • he was made (a) professor at the age of 40.
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professor

(noun)BrE / prəˈfesə(r) / NAmE / prəˈfesər /
  1. a university teacher of the highest rank
    • Professor (Ann) Williams
    • a chemistry professor
    • to be appointed Professor of French at Cambridge
    • He was made (a) professor at the age of 40.
  2. a teacher at a university or college
  3. Extra Examples

    • I spent six months as a visiting professor at Brown University.
    • Jennifer Bradbery, emerita professor/professor emerita of surgery
    • a research professor at the University of Southern California
    • a respected law professor at a prestigious university
    • an eminent professor of English
    • He is a distinguished professor of law at the University of Illinois.
    • He was made a professor at the age of 40.
    • Professor Smith
    • She is a former history professor.
    • She was my professor when I was a grad student.
    • The opening address will be given by Professor Montgomery, professor emeritus of microbiology at Birkbeck College.
    • The report was written by two Harvard professors.

    Word Origin

    • late Middle English: from Latin professor, from profess- ‘declared publicly’, from the verb profiteri, from pro- ‘before’ + fateri ‘confess’.
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