professor
noun
pro·fes·sor
prə-ˈfe-sər 
1
: one that professes, avows, or declares
2
a
: a faculty member of the highest academic rank at an institution of higher education
b
: a teacher at a university, college, or sometimes secondary school
c
: one that teaches or professes special knowledge of an art, sport, or occupation requiring skill
Examples of professor in a Sentence
Professor Williams will be teaching the class.
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Justin Levitt, a Loyola Law School professor who helped write the Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022, expects resistance in 2024 to be short lived.
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Sarah D. Wire, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2024
Nazis showed where such talk can lead, writes Benjamin Carter Hett, a history professor at at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
On the night of Jan. 29, 2022, Read, then 44, a successful financial analyst and then-adjunct professor at Bentley University, dropped O’Keefe off at a late-night house party in Canton, Mass., after a night of drinking with his police friends.
—Kc Baker, People.com, 18 Oct. 2024
The reason behind such a risk difference among ethnicities is unknown, according to Nancy You, MD, a professor of colon and rectal surgery and medical director of MD Anderson’s Young-Onset Colorectal Cancer Program in Houston.
—Don Rauf, EverydayHealth.com, 18 Oct. 2024
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Sarah D. Wire, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2024
Nazis showed where such talk can lead, writes Benjamin Carter Hett, a history professor at at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
On the night of Jan. 29, 2022, Read, then 44, a successful financial analyst and then-adjunct professor at Bentley University, dropped O’Keefe off at a late-night house party in Canton, Mass., after a night of drinking with his police friends.
—Kc Baker, People.com, 18 Oct. 2024
The reason behind such a risk difference among ethnicities is unknown, according to Nancy You, MD, a professor of colon and rectal surgery and medical director of MD Anderson’s Young-Onset Colorectal Cancer Program in Houston.
—Don Rauf, EverydayHealth.com, 18 Oct. 2024
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professor
noun
pro·fes·sor
prə-ˈfes-ər
: a teacher especially of the highest rank at a college or university
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