professor

• professour (archaic)

From Anglo-Norman proffessur, from Latin professor (“declarer, person who claims knowledge”), from the past participle stem of profiteor (“profess”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈfɛsə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈfɛsɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛsə(ɹ)

professor (plural professors)

1. The most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution.

   Synonyms: prof, Prof.

   • 2014 November 22, Michel Clasquin-Johnson, “What is the difference between a research professor and a professor”, in Quora‎:

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

2. (US, Philippines, informal) A teacher or faculty member at a college or university regardless of formal rank.
3. (archaic) One who professes something, such as a religious doctrine.
   • 1660, William Petty, Reflections upon some Persons and Things in Ireland, p. 170/1:

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

   • 1897, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (transl.) The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, Introduction, p. v:

     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;

4. (US, slang) A pianist in a saloon, brothel, etc.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 415:

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

5. The puppeteer who performs a Punch and Judy show; a Punchman.

• → Niuean: palōfesa

Internationalism; ultimately from Latin professor (“declarer, person who claims knowledge”).

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professor (definite accusative professoru, plural professorlar)

1. professor

Borrowed from Latin professōrem.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [pɾu.fəˈso]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [pɾo.fəˈso]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [pɾo.feˈsoɾ]

professor m (plural professors, feminine professora)

1. professor
2. teacher

   Synonyms: mestre, ensenyant

3. (music) musician (in an orchestra)

• professorat

• professar
• professió

• “professor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “professor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “professor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “professor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

professor c (singular definite professoren, plural indefinite professorer)

1. professor

• “professor” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Middle Dutch professoor, from Latin professor.

• IPA^(key): /ˌproːˈfɛ.sɔr/

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• Hyphenation: pro‧fes‧sor

professor m (plural professoren or professors, diminutive professortje n)

1. professor

   Dr. Van Der Meulen is een gerespecteerde professor aan de Universiteit van Utrecht. ― Dr. Van Der Meulen is a respected professor at Utrecht University.

   De professor heeft zijn nieuwste onderzoek gepubliceerd in een internationaal tijdschrift. ― The professor published his latest research in an international journal.

   De professor is gespecialiseerd in moleculaire biologie. ― The professor specializes in molecular biology.

• hoogleraar

• professoraal
• professoraat
• professorschap

From professus, from profiteor.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /proˈfes.sor/, [prɔˈfɛs̠ːɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /proˈfes.sor/, [proˈfɛsːor]

professor m (genitive professōris, feminine profestrīx); third declension

1. teacher, professor

Third-declension noun.

• “professor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• professor in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

From Latin professor.

professor m (definite singular professoren, indefinite plural professorer, definite plural professorene)

1. professor, the highest academic rank at a university

• “professor” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “professor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin professor.

professor m (definite singular professoren, indefinite plural professorar, definite plural professorane)

1. professor, the highest academic rank at a university

• professorat

• “professor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Latin professor.

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professor m (plural professors, feminine professora, feminine plural professoras)

1. teacher (person teaches professionally)

Learned borrowing from Latin professor.

• Hyphenation: pro‧fes‧sor

professor m (plural professores, feminine professora, feminine plural professoras)

1. teacher (person teaches professionally)

   Synonyms: docente (chiefly in academic contexts), mestre (dated), educador (has an affectionate or poetic undertone)

2. (Brazil, soccer, slang) coach

   Synonym: treinador

For quotations using this term, see Citations:professor.

• professorzinho (diminutive), professorinho (diminutive) (dated)
• professorzão (augmentative)
• professorado
• professorar

• professo
• professar

• Kabuverdianu: profesor
• Macanese: (from professora) sora

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professor c (feminine: professorska (dated))

1. professor;[1] the highest academic rank at a university

• forskningsprofessor
• adjungerad professor
• biträdande professor
• hedersprofessor
• gästprofessor
• profession
• professor emeritus
• professorstjänst
• professur

• högskoleadjunkt
• högskolelektor
• lektor
• adjunkt

professor (plural professorlar)

1. professor