associate professor

noun

: a member of a college or university faculty who ranks above an assistant professor and below a professor

associate professorship noun

Examples of associate professor in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Sevan Suni is an associate professor at the University of San Francisco who studies interactions between plants and pollinators. — Connie Hanzhang Jin, NPR, 8 Nov. 2026

Garnering ‘Above Average Attention’ Alex Coppock, an associate professor of political science at Northwestern University who has researched the impact of digital advertising on voter turnout, said the ad likely reached more voters than others. — Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2026

The technology relies on a combustible mix of oil and gas, explains Mark Nevitt, associate professor of law at Emory University School of Law, in The Regulatory Review. — Helena Madden, Martha Stewart, 5 Nov. 2026

Stanford, who is also associate professor of medicine and pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, said people taking GLP-1s need adequate nutrition to preserve muscle function. — NBC news, 4 Nov. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1819, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for associate professor

• aggressor
• assessor
• compressor
• confessor
• depressor
• hairdresser
• necessar
• oppressor
• possessor
• processor
• repressor
• successor