Thesaurus results for PROFESSOR

professor

noun

as in doctor

a teacher especially of the highest rank at a college or university a professor of chemistry Professor Williams will be teaching the class.

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Recent Examples of professor The Naughty Professor On TV, the problematic romance between 19-year-old Margo and her married 30-something English professor Mark Gable is shorter and lighter than in Thorpe’s book, which culminates in a love confession from teacher to student. —

Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 15 Apr. 2026 Robert Orsi, a professor of religious studies and history at Northwestern University, said he was alarmed by the post's connotations. —

Ava Berger, NPR, 15 Apr. 2026 Robert Brulle, a visiting professor at Brown University who studies fossil fuel lobbying, said ExxonMobil led efforts to discredit climate science that successfully impeded government intervention. —

Alex Kuffner, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026 Apart from sleeping with one’s professor — students, do not do this! —

Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for professor

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Noun

Majorities used it for research before seeing a doctor or after an appointment.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Apr. 2026
After the flight crew allegedly requested an onboard doctor, a physician-passenger advised that due to the severity of the burns and their proximity to her genitals, AC should be transported to an urgent care facility as soon as possible, the complaint says.

— Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 15 Apr. 2026