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单词 professoress
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professoressn.

Brit. /prəfɛsəˈrɛs/, /prəˈfɛsərᵻs/, U.S. /prəˈfɛsərəs/, /proʊˈfɛsərəs/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: professor n., -ess suffix1.
Etymology: < professor n. + -ess suffix1. Compare German Professorin female professor (c1652 or earlier; formerly also in sense ‘wife of a professor’ (1846 or earlier)).
Frequently mildly depreciative.
A female professor.In quot. 1886 rendering German Professorin wife of a professor.
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professorc1400
Doctor of the Chair1528
professoress1744
associate professor1812
adjoint professor1828
full professor1852
1744 C. Talbot Let. 12 Apr. in Lett. Elizabeth Carter & Catherine Talbot (1808) I. 34 Nor can [I] be so happy as to have any assistance from the professoress in fine speeches.
1845 Athenæum Feb. 204 A Symphony by a Parisian professoress, Madame Farrenc, was performed.
1850 C. Kingsley Tennyson in Misc. (1860) I. 228 The female college, with its professoresses, and hostleresses, and other Utopian monsters.
1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 352 The worshipful Mr. Professor Zachariah, and..his wife, the worshipful Mrs. Professoress Zachariah.
1935 R. Frost Let. (1972) 178 I hadn't supposed it possible to fire a full professoress any more than a full professor.
1996 Musical Times July 27/1 Some David Lodge-like anti-heroine, a Professoress in the Sonic Communication Department of a Faculty of Magna-Cultural Studies..sits twiddling her Parker.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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