professorpro‧fes‧sor /prəˈfesə $ -ər/ ●●● S3 W3 noun [countable] 
Professor Barclayprofessor of Chinese/economics/religion etc She’s been named the professor of English.► see thesaurus at teacher2American English a teacher at a university or college: Ted’s a college professor.biology/history/French etc professor Who’s your chemistry professor? → assistant professor, associate professor
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Professor Paterson will give the keynote address.
- a professor of physics
- Archie's father is a retired physics professor.
- She's a professor of history at Oxford University.
- The meeting will be chaired by Professor Andrew Jones.
- Who is your economics professor?
- Be sure the professor provides intensive feedback and is willing to look at materials from your work.
- Did I need protection, or was the professor miffed for his own reasons?
- From 1984 until the present he was a professor in the department of journalism at New York University.
- Several of the professors were internationally known figures who lectured to large audiences and engaged in public debates over controversial issues.
- The professor, who was greatly respected and whose classes were much enjoyed, used to stage an experiment.
- This professor constantly uses vulgar expressions.
- This professor, at least, and the students at the cabin were happy to see her.
THESAURUS
someone who teaches as their job, especially in a school: · a high school teacher
(also headteacher British English) the teacher who is in charge of a school or college: · The teacher sent him to the principal’s office.
someone who gives private lessons to one student or a small group of students. In Britain, a tutor is also a teacher in a university: · They hired a tutor to help him with his English.· Your tutor will help you find a subject for your essay.
someone who teaches in a university or college: · University lecturers aren’t very well paid.
a teacher in a college or university. In Britain, a professor is a high-ranking university teacher, especially one who is head of a department: · She was professor of linguistics at Cambridge University.
someone who teaches a sport or a practical skill such as swimming or driving: · He works as a ski instructor in the winter.· a driving instructor
someone who helps a person or team improve in a sport: · a professional tennis coach
especially American English formal someone whose job involves teaching people, or someone who is an expert on education: · Most educators agree that class sizes are still too big.
someone who teaches people particular skills, especially the skills they need to do a job: · a teacher trainer· Many companies pay outside trainers to teach management skills to their staff.
a woman who lived with a family and taught their children in past times: · As a governess, Charlotte Brontë received twenty pounds a year.
Longman Language Activatorsomeone who teaches someone who teaches, especially someone whose job is to teach children in a school: · She's a teacher in the high school.· I remember having some pretty awful teachers when I was at school.English/science/chemistry etc teacher: · The school doesn't have enough French teachers.teacher of: · a conference for teachers of English
someone who gives lessons to just one student or a small group of students: · When she was ill she studied at home with a private tutor.· They hired a private tutor to help Carlos with his English.
someone who teaches a sport or a practical skill: swimming/driving/riding etc instructor: · I managed to find a very good driving instructor.· a ski instructor
someone who trains a person or a team in a sport, and helps them to improve their skills: basketball/football/tennis etc coach: · We got a professional football coach to come and help us train the team.
someone who trains people in the skills they need to do a job: · Many companies now pay outside trainers to come in and teach management skills to their staff.· I work as a teacher trainer.
a university teacher - used in Britain to mean a teacher of the highest rank, and in the US to mean any university teacher who has a higher degree such as a PhD: · The meeting will be chaired by Professor Andrew Jones.· Archie's father is a retired physics professor.professor of: · She's a professor of history at Oxford University.
someone who teaches at a university or college: · Watson is now a lecturer at the University of Bradford.· a chemistry lecturerlecturer in: · a lecturer in economics
someone who works, studies, and teaches in a university, and has a lot of knowledge about a particular subject: · Academics can usually get time off teaching to do their own research.
formal someone who teaches in a school, college, or university: · Most educators agree that intimidating children is not the best way to encourage them to learn.· Professor Taylor is generally recognized as one of the state's most respected educators.
American all the teachers in a college or university: · Norman White has been on the faculty at UCLA for over thirty years.· Nearly half the faculty turned out to show their support.
WORD SETSAA, nounacademia, nounacademic, adjectiveacademic, nounacademy, nounalum, nounalumna, nounalumni, nounalumnus, nounassistant professor, nounAssociate of Arts, nounassociate professor, nounaudit, verbBA, nounbachelor's degree, nounBig Man on Campus, nounblue book, nounbrother, nounBSc, nounbursar, nounbursary, nouncampus, nounCantab, chair, nounchancellery, nounchancellor, nounclass, nouncoed, nouncommencement, nouncommunity college, nounconservatoire, nounconservatory, nounconvocation, nouncourse, nouncredit, nouncum laude, adverbdean, noundean's list, noundiploma, noundissertation, noundoctor, noundoctoral, adjectivedoctorate, nounDoctor of Philosophy, noundon, noundorm, noundormitory, noundouble first, noundown, adverbelective, nounexaminer, nounextension, nounextramural, adjectivefaculty, nounfinancial aid, nounfirst class, noungrad, noungrad school, noungraduate, noungraduate, verbgraduate, adjectivegraduate school, noungraduation, nounGRE, nounGreek, nounhall, nounhall of residence, nounhaze, verbhigher education, nounhomecoming, nounhonor roll, nounhonours degree, nounintercollegiate, adjectiveintramural, adjectiveIvy League, the, adjectivejoint honours, nounjunior college, nounlectureship, nounLLB, nounLLD, nounLLM, nounMA, nounmagna cum laude, adjectivemajor, nounMaster of Arts, nounMaster of Science, nounmaster's, nounmaster's degree, nounmatriculate, verbmature student, nounMBA, nounMEd, nounmedic, nounmedical school, nounMFA, nounmidterm, nounMilitary Academy, nounminor, nounMLitt, nounmortarboard, nounMPhil, nounM.Sc., nounOpen University, the, option, nounoral, nounOxbridge, nounPhD, nounPhi Beta Kappa, nounpledge, nounpledge, verbpoly, nounpolytechnic, nounpost doctoral, adjectivepost-grad, nounpostgraduate, nounpostgraduate, adjectivepractical, nounprof, nounprofessor, nounprofessorial, adjectiveprofessorship, nounProvost, nounqualified, adjectivequarter, nounrag, nounread, verbreadership, nounredbrick, adjectiverush, verbrush, nounsandwich course, nounschool, nounsemester, nounseminar, nounseminary, nounsenate, nounsenior, nounsingle honours, nounsophomore, nounsorority, nounspring break, nounstate university, nounstudent union, nounsubject, nounsumma cum laude, adverbsummer school, nounsurvey course, nounsyllabus, nountech, nountechnical college, nountenure, nountermly, adjectivetertiary education, nountheological college, nounthesis, nounthird, nounthird class, nountutor, nountutorial, nountutorial, adjective2.1, nountwo-two, nounU., undergraduate, noununi, nounUniv., university, nounupperclassman, nounupperclasswoman, nounvac, nounvacation, nounvarsity, nounvice-chancellor, nounvisiting professor, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY She’s been named the professor of English. Ted’s a college professor. Who’s your chemistry professor?COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Only full members have the right to vote.
She’s been named the professor of English. Ted’s a college professor. Who’s your chemistry professor? Only full members have the right to vote.· Her father was a university lecturer and her mother a teacher.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· On I January 1803 he was appointed assistant professor at 100 guineas perannum.· He got his Nobel for the work he started as an assistant professor at Harvard.
· Harris rose to the position of full professor at York in 1971.· In 1979 the department refused to promote him to full professor.· Into his life walks the daughter of one of the full professors.
· They banged tables and a little old professor would shout and stab the air with his cigar.· He wondered whether his old professor would have approached him under such circumstances.· It's true what they say, old professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
NOUN· Mr Tolleson returned to his alma mater in 1971 as an associate professor to teach band arranging and music theory.
· He must have enjoyed it when he was scoring off his pupils in his days as a college professor.· Doctoral degree recipients generally become college professors or work in an area of research.· A survey asked 1,245 randomly selected college professors how much they gave to charity each year.· He plays Sherman Klump, a college professor and genetics researcher.· Perhaps this person was a college professor who assigned absurd papers-and too many of them.· Susana Orozco wants to be an actress or a college professor, is the oldest of three children and loves art class.
· He retired in 1964 with the title professor emeritus of the University of London.· Noel Timms is professor emeritus, University of Leicester.· Ben Bagdikian, professor emeritus, University of California, Berkeley.· Nathan Keyfitz, a professor emeritus of sociology and population at Harvard University, has spent considerable time analyzing the debate.
· A military history professor is retiring.· Actually, Wilson had suffered a series of strokes, starting at age thirty-nine when he was a history professor at Princeton.· A history professor at Baghdad University, Sadoun Fadil, said people rally around their leader during hard times.· He was going to bury himself in a library for a few years, then become a history professor.
· But was I happy for the football mentality when I encountered my first law professors!· After a year or two with law professors, students have lost their idealism.
· For example, one chair went to a female math professor.· Neither did several other math professors, including Morris Hirsch, who was active in the anti-war movement when Kaczynski taught there.· Co-star Jeff Bridges is a hapless Columbia math professor who turns to jelly in the presence of beautiful women.· Y., a Long Island University math professor, pointed out that saving is often not so simple.· Kaczynski was an assistant math professor at the campus from 1967 to 1969.
· But my psychology professors seemed not to care at all about minorities.· Gary Wells, a psychology professor at Iowa State University, suggested that posters with composite drawings asked the wrong questions.· Two university psychology professors say they have scientific evidence that southerners are more prone to violence than northerners.
· Law school professors, in my view, are the drones and morticians of the profession.
· Tolnay is a sociology professor at the University of Albany in New York.
· For example, in 1984, fewer than 3 percent of university professors were women.· Their fathers were university professors and lawyers and accountants and advertisers who jogged around this lake in support hose.· He was replaced by Humberto de la Calle, 44, a university professor and barrister.· William Vickrey, a retired Columbia University professor, died just three days after the prize announcement.· The group is composed mostly of university professors, though of every persuasion from Keynesian to libertarian to Marxist.· He was, he said, a university professor.· Thirty percent of college and university professors, it is asserted, are con men, harassers, layabouts and plagiarists.
VERB· Instead, he became a professor of immunology but says that he still enjoys cooking.· Illmensee became a professor at the University of Geneva and Hoppe went with him.· Doctoral degree recipients generally become college professors or work in an area of research.· In 1885 Meldola became professor of chemistry at Finsbury Technical College.· He was going to bury himself in a library for a few years, then become a history professor.· He then became professor in Basle, where he remained for the rest of his long life.· In 1891, he returned to Geneva where in 1906, he became professor of General Linguistics.
· He retired as a professor of chemistry in 1980 but had continued his research until recently.· William Vickrey, a retired Columbia University professor, died just three days after the prize announcement.· And what about this retired professor of criminal justice?
· A Tokyo professor who studied secret papers, claimed the horror was hushed up after the war.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► emeritus professor/director etc
1 British English a teacher of the highest rank in a university department: - Ben Bagdikian, professor emeritus, University of California, Berkeley.
- He retired in 1964 with the title professor emeritus of the University of London.
- Nathan Keyfitz, a professor emeritus of sociology and population at Harvard University, has spent considerable time analyzing the debate.
- Noel Timms is professor emeritus, University of Leicester.
Professor Barclayprofessor of Chinese/economics/religion etc She’s been named the professor of English.► see thesaurus at teacher2American English a teacher at a university or college: Ted’s a college professor.biology/history/French etc professor Who’s your chemistry professor? → assistant professor, associate professor