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

Recruit interns through an active marketing campaign that includes targeting certification hubs, career fairs and on-campus recruiting, and liaising with department heads and professors. — Michelle Sims, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026

Dhillon also expressed concern over funding for professors’ work and for laboratories that deal with potentially sensitive information from a national security perspective. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 17 Aug. 2026

At the time there were only five other Black professors at Cambridge, and still just 1% of all professors in the UK are Black, according to the Society for Research into Higher Education. — Rupert Neate, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026

Universities do need to examine their budgets, and professors should not be exempt from scrutiny. — Francisco Ruiz, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026

The project, which included volunteers and University of Idaho graduate students, is part of the Idaho Public Archaeology program, a collaboration of U of I professors who try to include everyday people in their archaeological discoveries. — Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 13 Aug. 2026

Instructors and professors would still assign letter grades for students to know, but students' final GPAs and final transcripts for the first semester would not reflect them. — Yi-Jin Yu, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026

After all, humans also imitate intelligence—children learn from their parents, and professors master the teachings of earlier scholars. — Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2026

The study was carried out by Yutaka Sumino, PhD, and Kiwamu Yoshii, PhD, both professors at the Faculty of Advanced Engineering at Tokyo University of Science, Japan. — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2026