Professoriate

Quick meaning: Professoriate is a noun meaning Professors considered as a group or body.

Meaning

Professors considered as a group or body.

More Meanings

1. (dated) The office of a professor.

Example Sentences

Technological Change and Professional Control in the Professoriate.

[…] at that moment the whole professoriate was absorbed in one of those great educational crises which from time to time shake a university to its base.

Did these interactions, taken as a whole, reinforce Kennedy’s willingness to reach liberal outcomes in a series of high-profile cases? No less a judge of character than his colleague Scalia thought so, hinting in writing that Kennedy’s leftward bent came from a desire to please the professoriate.

1899, George Francis FitzGerald, Lord Kelvin: Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Glasgow, 1846-1899, Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, Biographical Sketch, p. 6, A generation that has been reared on the ideas involved in the conservation of energy can hardly understand the position of science when Lord Kelvin began his professoriate.

Word Forms

• professoriates
• professorate
• professoriat

Synonyms for professoriate

Depending on context, synonyms include professorship.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include professordom, professoriat, professorship, professor, professorate, faculty.

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