professor

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /pɹəˈfɛs.ə/    美 /pɹəˈfɛs.ɚ/|/pɹəˈfes.ə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution.
    — Professor is what you become after teaching for twenty to thirty years.
  2. A teacher or faculty member at a college or university regardless of formal rank. Philippines,US,informal
  3. One who professes something, such as a religious doctrine. archaic
    — […] I alvvayes thought / It vvas both impious and vnnaturall, / That ſuch immanity and bloody ſtrife / Should reigne among Profeſſors of one Faith.
  4. A practitioner, one who (publicly) practises or teaches an art or skill. obsolete
    — Two young men of familiar acquaintance … were one euening at a common Inne of this town (as I haue heard) where the one of them shewed his skill on the Virginals, to the no little contentement of the hearers. Nowe as diuers guests of the house came into the room to listen, so among the rest entered an artificiall Conny-catcher, who as occasion serued, in the time of ceissing betweene the seueral toyes and fancies hee plaid: very much commended his cunning, quicke hand, and such qualities praiseworthy in such a professour.
  5. A pianist in a saloon, brothel, etc. US,slang
    — You could hear […] pianos under the hands of whorehouse professors sounding like they came with keys between the keys.
  6. The puppeteer who performs a Punch and Judy show; a Punchman.

词形变化

professors plural professour alternative,archaic

词汇关系

衍生词
absent-minded professor adjunct professor assistant professor associate professor brofessor distinguished professor extraordinary professor full professor institute professor James B. Duke professor little professor mad professor nonprofessor president's professor professorate professordom professoress professoriat professoriate professorine professoring professorish professorless professorlike professorling professorly professor ordinarius Professor's Cube professorship regents' professor regents professor research professor Sterling professor subprofessor university professor visiting professor
相关词
professorial profestrix regius professor

词源

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.
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