单词 | university chair |
释义 | > as lemmasuniversity chair university chair n. the most senior academic office or position in a faculty, subject, etc., at a particular university; cf. chair n.1 6b.In Britain and some other English-speaking countries the holder of a university chair is given the title professor (see professor n. 4a). ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > teacher > university or college teacher > [noun] > professor > position of profession1579 professorship1631 university chair1711 chair1816 professorate1831 professoriat1856 professoriate1862 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. v. ii. 287 He finds these Subjects..appropriated to the School, the University-Chair, or Pulpit. 1899 B. W. Henderson Merton Coll. 172 Not a few Mertonians have been appointed to University Chairs. 1968 J. Lyons Introd. Theoret. Linguistics i. 22 The term ‘comparative philology’,..like many other unsuitable terms, has been perpetuated in the titles of university chairs and departments. 1992 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 9 Feb. i. 52 The town rallied around the family and vowed to raise the initial money to finance a university chair in AIDS research. < as lemmas |
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