FACULTY MEMBER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does faculty member mean? 

• FACULTY MEMBER (noun)
  The noun FACULTY MEMBER has 1 sense:

1. an educator who works at a college or university

  Familiarity information: FACULTY MEMBER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FACULTY MEMBER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An educator who works at a college or university

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

academic; academician; faculty member

Hypernyms ("faculty member" is a kind of...):

educator; pedagog; pedagogue (someone who educates young people)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "faculty member"):

prof; professor (someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university)

 Context examples 

The supermassive black hole in the center of the quasar gobbles up an enormous amount of nearby materials, which glare and shine when they constitute an accretion disk before finally sliding down in the black hole, said Hongyan Zhou, faculty member at the University of Science and Technology of China about the universe’s brightest beacons; shining with magnitudes more luminosity than entire galaxies and the stars they contain.

(Astronomers Study How Quasars Are Powered by Accretion Disks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)