ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Professor

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /pɹəˈfɛs.ə/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Professor is a noun meaning The most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution.

Meaning

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

(US, Philippines, informal) A teacher or faculty member at a college or university regardless of formal rank.
(US, slang) A pianist in a saloon, brothel, etc.
The puppeteer who performs a Punch and Judy show; a Punchman.
(archaic) One who professes something, such as a religious doctrine.
(obsolete) A practitioner, one who (publicly) practises or teaches an art or skill.

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

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

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

[…] I alvvayes thought / It vvas both impious and vnnaturall, / That ſuch immanity and bloody ſtrife / Should reigne among Profeſſors of one Faith.

Depending on context, synonyms include prof.

Related dictionary entries include educator, faculty, teacher, schoolteacher, schoolmaster, lecturer.

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