professor

noun

pro·fes·sor | \prə-ˈfe-sər

Definition of professor

1 : one that professes, avows, or declares

2a : a faculty member of the highest academic rank at an institution of higher education

b : a teacher at a university, college, or sometimes secondary school

c : one that teaches or professes special knowledge of an art, sport, or occupation requiring skill

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Other Words from professor

professorial \ˌprō-fə-ˈsȯr-ē-əl,

ˌprä- \ adjective

professorially \-ē-ə-lē

\ adverb

professorship \prə-ˈfe-sər-ˌship

\ noun

Examples of professor in a Sentence

Professor Williams will be teaching the class.

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An amateur radio operator (WA4YDK), Elliot was a computer science professor, a Cooper City City Commissioner & avid rollerblader. — Sun-Sentinel.com, "Deaths in South Florida: 7/14," 14 July 2018 The senators supported the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett, a former Notre Dame law professor, to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. — Becky Jacobs, Post-Tribune, "Hammond federal judge Rudy Lozano, 76, dies," 13 July 2018 That sense of responsibility to the court and Constitution may have been cultivated from a young age by her parents: Her father was a law professor, and her mother a judge. — Kristen Chick, The Christian Science Monitor, "By staying on the job, Poland's top judge fights the right-wing government," 13 July 2018 Hemp has been used for many things, including ropes, sails and cloth, according to Cecilia Hillard is a professor and director of the Neuroscience Research Center for the Medical College of Wisconsin. — Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Six things you might be asking about hemp," 13 July 2018 Native American reservations lean Democratic, as do Hispanics in rural California, middle-class black professionals in suburban Atlanta and white college professors in Iowa. — The Economist, "The L wordWho is a Democrat?," 12 July 2018 Steinmetz was among an estimated 500 college professors nationwide who lost their jobs during the McCarthy era, many of them blacklisted for years afterward. — sandiegouniontribune.com, "July 7, 1955: Steinmetz called Communist at hearing," 7 July 2018 During Warren's hotly contested Senate bid in Massachusetts in 2012, The Boston Herald uncovered a 1996 student newspaper article quoting a Harvard Law School spokesman who boasted that Warren, who was a professor, was Native American. — NBC News, "Fact check: Trump wants Warren to prove her Native American heritage. Could she?," 6 July 2018 Edge Kanyongolo, a law professor at University of Malawi’s Chancellor College, said by phone from the southern town of Zomba. — Michael Cohen, Bloomberg.com, "Malawi Leader Defends Anti-Graft Record After Ally's Rebuke," 28 June 2018

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