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

For The Times) One of the morning panelists, UC Davis associate professor Alessandro Ossola, recounted the process of cataloging more than 200 types of trees on public lands in Altadena and the Pacific Palisades. — Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Sabrina Habib, an associate professor of visual communications at the University of South Carolina, dealt with this question as the inaugural AI coordinator for the College of Information and Communications. — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2026

Marcie Logsdon, an associate professor at Washington State University’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital, told The Seattle Times that Jimothy seems to be doing well, despite his apparent birth defect. — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 13 Sep. 2026

In 2023, Ruane attended a conference with Georgios Georgalis, an associate professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków. — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 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