professor

CEFRB1

/pɹəˈfɛs.ə/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A senior teacher or researcher at a university.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A teacher or faculty member at a college or university regardless of formal rank.

Examples

  • The film features Cary Grant as a professor.

  • The professor seemed to be lost in thought.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
4

Also pronounced

  • /pɹəˈfes.ə/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. One who professes something, such as a religious doctrine.

  2. The most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution.

  3. A practitioner, one who (publicly) practises or teaches an art or skill.

More examples

In context

  • The professor treated her as one of his students.

  • This period in which Abraham the Jew lived was one in which Magic was almost universally believed in, and in which its Professors were held in honour;

  • Two young men of familiar acquaintance … were one euening at a common Inne of this town (as I haue heard) where the one of them shewed his skill on the Virginals, to the no little contentement of the hearers. Nowe as diuers guests of the house came into the r...

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Origin

noun

From Middle English professor, professour, from Anglo-Norman proffessur and its etymon Latin professor (“declarer, person who claims knowledge”), from the past participle stem of profiteor (“profess”). By surface analysis, profess + -or.