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

Humans tend to want to name and compare historic weather events, said Adam Rainear, an associate professor of communication and media at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2026

Geneticist Shai Carmi, an associate professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has collaborated on an unpublished analysis of another grave from the same cemetery but was not involved in the research on Zosia. — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026

Julie Klinger is an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, specializing in the politics and economics of rare earth elements. — Erin Hassanzadeh, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026

His death still resonates, according to Christopher Benson, Till Institute co-founder, journalist, attorney and associate professor at Northwestern University. — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 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