Synonyms of professors

professors

noun

plural of professor

as in doctors

a teacher especially of the highest rank at a college or university

a professor of chemistry

Professor Williams will be teaching the class.

Related Words

• doctors
• deans
• masters
• dons
• profs
• instructors
• coaches
• educators
• mistresses
• schoolteachers
• pedagogues
• readers
• tutors
• docents
• preceptors
• rectors
• schoolmasters
• lecturers
• educationists
• headmasters
• mentors
• guides
• trainers
• academicians
• preparers
• regius professors
• gurus
• academics
• schoolmarms
• headmistresses
• schoolmistresses
• instructresses
• preachers
• pedants
• homeschoolers
• student teachers
• academes
• interns
• tutoresses
• practice teachers
• catechists
• governesses
• inculcators
• drillmasters
• didacts
• moralizers

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of professors

Athletes do miss a lot of classes, which grates on professors. — Geraldo L. Cadava, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2026

More than 250 signatories to a nationwide open letter that included professors at Harvard and Stanford also called for a retraction. — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026

For months, a sizable group of University of California professors have been demanding the reinstatement of standardized test requirements in the undergraduate admissions policy. — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2026

Frankie may receive much of the attention on campus, but professors say the larger goal is to give students hands-on experience as cyberthreats evolve just as quickly as the technology used to fight them. — Wakisha Bailey, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026

Across the country, professors themselves are still trying to determine where to draw the line on AI use. — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2026

The sitting Attorney General was reportedly being paid $100,000 to teach a course at a public university, far beyond what adjunct professors typically earn. — José Javier Rodríguez, Sun Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2026

These professors incorporate allegedly responsible uses of GenAI into assignments, such as telling their students to upload course documents into an LLM and asking it to generate potential test questions. — Dónal Gill, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026

A number of my professors went on to become quite famous philosophers such as Nicholas Wolterstorff and Alvin Plantinga. — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026