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What does the word professor mean?

    Part of speech: noun

  • PROFESSORSHIP.

    • Part of speech: noun

  • One who makes profession, as of religion.

    • Part of speech: adverb

  • Professorly.

    • Part of speech: adjective

  • PROFESSORIAL.

Usage examples for professor

  1. The Professor sent for. – The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island by Roger Thompson Finlay
  2. The Professor shook his head sadly. – Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands and Other Stories by Bret Harte
  3. Joseph Elliston, her father, had been a brilliant and promising young professor when her mother married him, with, as people said, a career before him. – The Whirligig of Time by Wayland Wells Williams
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