emeritus

adjective

/ɪˈmerɪtəs/

(often Emeritus)

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used before or after a title to show that a person, usually a university teacher, keeps the title as an honour, although he or she has stopped working
- the Emeritus Professor of Biology
- the National Gallery's director emeritus
In North American English the form Emerita /ɪmerɪtə/ is used for women: Professor Emerita Mary Judd
Word Originmid 18th cent.: from Latin, past participle of emereri ‘earn one's discharge by service’, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out of, from’ + mereri ‘earn’.

单词	emeritus
释义	emeritus adjective /ɪˈmerɪtəs/ /ɪˈmerɪtəs/ (often Emeritus) jump to other results used before or after a title to show that a person, usually a university teacher, keeps the title as an honour, although he or she has stopped working the Emeritus Professor of Biology the National Gallery's director emeritus In North American English the form Emerita /ɪmerɪtə/ is used for women: Professor Emerita Mary Judd Word Originmid 18th cent.: from Latin, past participle of emereri ‘earn one's discharge by service’, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out of, from’ + mereri ‘earn’.
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