PROFESSOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does professor mean? 

• PROFESSOR (noun)
  The noun PROFESSOR has 1 sense:

1. someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university

  Familiarity information: PROFESSOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROFESSOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

prof; professor

Hypernyms ("professor" is a kind of...):

academic; academician; faculty member (an educator who works at a college or university)

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

assistant professor (a teacher or lower rank than an associate professor)

associate professor (a teacher lower in rank than a full professor but higher than an assistant professor)

full professor (a professor of the highest rank)

Regius professor (holder of a British professorship created by a royal patron)

visiting professor (a professor visiting another college or university to teach for a limited time)

Holonyms ("professor" is a member of...):

faculty; staff (the body of teachers and administrators at a school)

Derivation:

professorial (relating to or characteristic of professors)

professorship (the position of professor)

 Context examples 

The first professor I saw, was in a very large room, with forty pupils about him.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Professor Van Helsing took the head of the table, to which Dr. Seward motioned him as he came into the room.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I would only ask this: What do you imagine that this poor fellow meant by his last words: ‘The professor—it was she’?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Professor Summerlee for once was too depressed to argue, though he shook his head violently as a token of general disagreement.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Professor Craig Smith, head of EOS Space Systems, the Australian company that is developing the junk-busting devices, explained how it would work.

(Australia Developing Lasers to Track, Destroy Space Junk, VOA)

"I don't think he looks any more like a professor than you do a doctor," the woman broke in.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Professor Bhaer was there, and while he arranged his books, I took a good look at him.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

This professor was very unlike his colleague.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The professor mentioned 2,600 cases of Glioma, but I'm not an expert.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

The only men who know their Latin are the apothecaries, the lawyers, and the Latin professors.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)