Definitions
A teacher or scholar at a college or university.
Word origin
From Middle English professor, professour, from Anglo-Norman proffessur and its etymon Latin professor (“declarer, person who claims knowledge”), from the past participle stem of profiteor (“profess”). By surface analysis, profess + -or.
Used in a sentence
“Professor is what you become after teaching for twenty to thirty years.”
“[…] I alvvayes thought / It vvas both impious and vnnaturall, / That ſuch immanity and bloody ſtrife / Should reigne among Profeſſors of one Faith.”
“As for Religion, I have not said, much lesse meant irreverently of it, or of the Professors thereof.”
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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“campus lecturer”9 letters
02“University teacher”9 letters
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