Word definition: professor

Etimology


From Anglo-Norman proffessur, from Latin professor (“declarer, person who claims knowledge”), from the past participle stem of profiteor (“profess”).

noun


professor (plural professors)

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.

Examples


Synonyms: prof, Prof.

Professor is what you become after teaching for twenty to thirty years.

As for Religion, I have not said, much lesse meant irreverently of it, or of the Professors thereof.

This period in which Abraham the Jew lived was one in which Magic was almost universally believed in, and in which its Professors were held in honour;

You could hear [...] pianos under the hands of whorehouse professors sounding like they came with keys between the keys.

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