professor
noun
pro·fes·sor
prə-ˈfe-sər 
1
: one that professes, avows, or declares
2
a
: 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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Professor Williams will be teaching the class.
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James Pollard, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2025
In March, the Illinois attorney general’s public access bureau ordered the University of Illinois to turn over a copy of the Big Ten’s media rights deal to Michael Leroy, a U of I law professor and public records maven.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 17 Dec. 2025
Steffen Hardt, PhD, a professor of nano- and microfluidics at TU Darmstadt, noted that in such systems the observed effect could take place billions of times at once in a single container, and potentially lead to the formation of complex patterns.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025
This method of seed dispersal is called endozoochory, says Tristram Seidler, a biology professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the curator of the UMass Amherst Herbarium.
—Scott Neuman, NPR, 17 Dec. 2025
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“Professor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/professor. Accessed 19 Dec. 2025.
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professor
noun
pro·fes·sor
prə-ˈfes-ər
: a teacher especially of the highest rank at a college or university
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