professor
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (1)professors
- someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or universitySynonyms: profType of academician, academicKinds Regius professor, associate professor, full professor, assistant professor, visiting professorMember of staff, faculty
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Translations
Noun senior university teacher
- Spanish
- profesor
- French
- professeur
- German
- Professor
- Italian
- professore
- Portuguese
- professor
- Turkish
- profesör
- Russian
- профе́ссор proféssor
- Arabic
- أُسْتَاذ ʔustāḏ
- Chinese
- 教授 jiàoshòu
- Japanese
- 教授 kyōju
29 more languages
- Dutch
- professor
- Polish
- profesor
- Swedish
- professor
- Greek
- καθηγητής kathigitís
- Korean
- 교수 gyosu
- Indonesian
- profesor
- Vietnamese
- giáo sư
- Hungarian
- professzor
- Portuguese (PT)
- professor
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 教授 jiàoshòu
- Albanian
- profesor
- Breton
- kelenner
- Catalan
- professor
- Czech
- profesor
- Danish
- professor
- Esperanto
- profesoro
- Finnish
- professori
- Georgian
- პროფესორი ṗropesori
- Hebrew
- פְּרוֹפֶסוֹר profésor
- Icelandic
- prófessor
- Latvian
- profesors
- Lithuanian
- profesorius
- Norwegian
- professor
- Romanian
- profesor
- Scottish Gaelic
- àrd-ollamh
- Serbo-Croatian
- profesor
- Slovenian
- profesor
- Swahili
- profesa
- Yiddish
- פּראָפֿעסאָר profesor
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L., a teacher, a public teacher: cf. F. professeur. See Profess.
1. One who professed, or makes open declaration of, his sentiments or opinions; especially, one who makes a public avowal of his belief in the Scriptures and his faith in Christ, and thus unites himself to the visible church. “Professors of religion.” Francis, Baron Verulam Bacon
2. One who professed, or publicly teaches, any science or branch of learning; especially, an officer in a university, college, or other seminary, whose business it is to read lectures, or instruct students, in a particular branch of learning; as a professor of theology, of botany, of mathematics, or of political economy.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54