Meaning of professor | Babel Free

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1. The title for someone who holds the job of professor.
2. professor (a faculty member)
3. The most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution.
4. The title for someone who holds the job of professor
5. A mock title for a person seen as pedantic or obsessive on a topic.
   derogatory, informal, sometimes
6. teacher
7. A teacher or faculty member at a college or university regardless of formal rank.
   Philippines, US, informal
8. A mock title for a person seen as pedantic or obsessive on a topic
9. A teacher at a college or university, especially the most senior in a particular field.
10. One who professes something, such as a religious doctrine.
    archaic
11. (often abbreviated to Prof. when written).
    often abbreviated to
12. A practitioner, one who (publicly) practises or teaches an art or skill.
    obsolete
13. professories أُسْتاذي професорски professoral profesorský Professoren-... professor- καθηγητικόςprofesoral professori- وابسته به مقام استادی professorimainen professoral שֶׁל פְּרוֹפסוֹר प्राध्यापकीय tanári, professzori pekerjaan profesor prófessors-; háskólakennara- professorale 教授の 교수의 profesoriaus, dėstytojo profesora-; pasniedzēja- macam profesor professoraalprofessoral, professor- profesorski په لارښوونى پورى اړوند مقام professoral pro­fe­soral профессорский profesorský profesorski profe...
14. A pianist in a saloon, brothel, etc.
    US, slang
15. the post of a professor. professorskap أُسْتاذِيَّه професура cátedra profesura die Professur professorat καθηγητική έδρα cátedra professuur کرسی استادی professuuri chaire מִשרַת פְּרוֹפסוֹר प्राध्यापकी egyetemi tanszék jabatan profesor prófessorsstaða (cattedra universitaria) 教授の職 교수의 직 profesoriaus vieta profesūra jawatan profesor professoraatprofessorstilling, professorat profesura د استادى څوكى cátedra catedră; profesorat профессорство profesúra profesura profesorski položaj professur ตำแ...
16. The puppeteer who performs a Punch and Judy show; a Punchman.
17. A college or university teacher who ranks above an associate professor.
18. One who professes.
19. (Education) the principal lecturer or teacher in a field of learning at a university or college; a holder of a university chair
20. (Education) chiefly US and Canadian any teacher in a university or college. See also associate professor, assistant professor, full professor
    chiefly
21. a person who claims skill and instructs others in some sport, occupation, etc
22. a person who professes his opinions, beliefs, etc

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Examples

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

“[…] I alvvayes thought / It vvas both impious and vnnaturall, / That ſuch immanity and bloody ſtrife / Should reigne among Profeſſors of one Faith.”

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

“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;”

“Two young men of familiar acquaintance … were one euening at a common Inne of this town (as I haue heard) where the one of them shewed his skill on the Virginals, to the no little contentement of the hearers. Nowe as diuers guests of the house came into the room to listen, so among the rest entered an artificiall Conny-catcher, who as occasion serued, in the time of ceissing betweene the seueral toyes and fancies hee plaid: very much commended his cunning, quicke hand, and such qualities praiseworthy in such a professour.”

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

“This is just what I wanted. I got professor environment pants over here, and I can't get my jetski started. How am I gonna get back?”

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