professor

Alternative forms

• professour (archaic)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman proffessur, from Latin professor (“declarer, person who claims knowledge”), from the past participle stem of profiteor (“profess”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈfɛsə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈfɛsɚ/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Audio (UK)

  (file)

Noun

professor (plural professors)

1. The most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution, informally also known as "full professor." Abbreviated Prof.
   • 2014 November 22, Michel Clasquin-Johnson, “What is the difference between a research professor and a professor”, in Quora‎:

     Professor is what you become after teaching for twenty to thirty years.

2. (US, slang) A teacher or faculty member at a college or university regardless of formal rank.
3. (archaic) One who professes (a professor of Judaism, a professor of Christianity, a professor of Mahometanism (Islam)).
   • 1660, William Petty, Reflections upon some Persons and Things in Ireland, p. 170/1:

     As for Religion, I have not said, much lesse meant irreverently of it, or of the Professors thereof.

   • 1897, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (transl.) The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, Introduction, p. v:

     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;

4. (US, slang) A pianist in a saloon, brothel, etc.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 415:

     You could hear [...] pianos under the hands of whorehouse professors sounding like they came with keys between the keys.

5. The puppeteer who performs a Punch and Judy show; a Punchman.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin professor.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /pɾo.fəˈso/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /pɾu.fəˈso/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /pɾo.feˈsoɾ/

Noun

professor m (plural professors, feminine professora)

1. professor
2. teacher

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: pro‧fes‧sor

Noun

professor m (plural professoren or professors, diminutive professortje n)

1. professor

Etymology

From prōfessus, from prōfiteor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /proˈfes.sor/, [prɔˈfɛs.sɔr]

Noun

professor m (genitive professōris); third declension

1. teacher, professor

References

• professor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• professor in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Etymology

From Latin professor

Noun

professor m (definite singular professoren, indefinite plural professorer, definite plural professorene)

1. professor, the highest academic rank at a university

References

• “professor” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “professor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Etymology

From Latin professor

Noun

professor m (definite singular professoren, indefinite plural professorar, definite plural professorane)

1. professor, the highest academic rank at a university

References

• “professor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin professor.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɾufɨˈsoɾ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌpɾo.fe.ˈsoʁ/
• Hyphenation: pro‧fes‧sor

Noun

professor m (plural professores, feminine professora, feminine plural professoras)

1. teacher (person teaches professionally)

   Synonyms: docente (chiefly in academic contexts), mestre (dated), educador (has an affectionate or poetic undertone)

2. (Brazil, pro football, slang) coach

   Synonym: treinador

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

professor c (feminine: professorska (dated))

1. professor;^[1] the highest academic rank at a university

References