PROFESSORSHIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does professorship mean? 

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

1. the position of professor

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROFESSORSHIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The position of professor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

chair; professorship

Context example:

he was awarded an endowed chair in economics

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

berth; billet; office; place; position; post; situation; spot (a job in an organization)

Derivation:

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