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

Annabelle Singer, an associate professor and biomedical engineer at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, is running her own research using light and sound to probe what goes wrong in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. — Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 13 July 2026

Other Researchers Exploring Light and Sound At Georgia Tech and Emory University, associate professor Annabelle Singer is running a parallel line of research using something that looks like ski goggles paired with headphones. — Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 13 July 2026

Dale Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University statistics and economics. — Leonard David, Space.com, 11 July 2026

Red pill ideology has grown in popularity during an era of economic and cultural shifts, says Paromita Pain, PhD, an associate professor of global media at the University of Nevada, Reno. — Sherri Gordon, Parents, 10 July 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