Professor
noun
A teacher of the highest rank in a university or college.
My history professor recommended that book to me
Often appears as...
- assistant professor
- associate professor
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Academic
noun
Someone who states in a clear and definite way what they think or know about something.
He's always held forth like a professor on political issues, whether his opinion was asked or not
Often appears as...
- professor of philosophy
- professor of physics
noun
A teacher of the highest rank in a university or college.
My history professor recommended that book to me
Often appears as...
- assistant professor
- associate professor
Usage tips
Academic
noun
Someone who states in a clear and definite way what they think or know about something.
He's always held forth like a professor on political issues, whether his opinion was asked or not
Often appears as...
- professor of philosophy
- professor of physics
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Pro Tip 1/3Academic Titles
In academia, titles like assistant, associate, or full professor indicate different ranks and experience levels.
She was promoted from assistant to associate professor last year.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Teaching
A professor usually teaches, but they also conduct research and publish scholarly articles.
The professor received a grant for her research in biochemistry.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Address
When addressing, it's polite to use 'Professor' followed by their last name unless instructed otherwise.
Good morning, Professor Smith. I have a question about our assignment.
Pro Tip 1/3Academic Titles
In academia, titles like assistant, associate, or full professor indicate different ranks and experience levels.
She was promoted from assistant to associate professor last year.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Teaching
A professor usually teaches, but they also conduct research and publish scholarly articles.
The professor received a grant for her research in biochemistry.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Address
When addressing, it's polite to use 'Professor' followed by their last name unless instructed otherwise.
Good morning, Professor Smith. I have a question about our assignment.
Pro Tip 1/3Academic Titles
In academia, titles like assistant, associate, or full professor indicate different ranks and experience levels.
She was promoted from assistant to associate professor last year.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Teaching
A professor usually teaches, but they also conduct research and publish scholarly articles.
The professor received a grant for her research in biochemistry.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Address
When addressing, it's polite to use 'Professor' followed by their last name unless instructed otherwise.
Good morning, Professor Smith. I have a question about our assignment.
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Thinking your way out of...
identified and showed it other the other students as a matter of fact we decide to start a little impostor support group we started meeting and talking about big intellectual frauds and how we're fooling all of our professors and everything went great for about three weeks and that's about the time I started to have this nagging sense that
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Einstein's miracle year...
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Can you solve the...
not wasting a single kiloliter of fuel. It also helps us to think symmetrically so they can make shorter trips in either direction while setting the professor up for a long unsupported stretch in the middle. Here's his solution. All three planes take off at noon flying west,
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NASA Trailblazer:...
big old brain on you by that time i didn't know but you didn't know it man you're either right or you're wrong that i liked about it she always loved numbers the professor said i think you'd make a good math
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Bad Bunny
Puerto Rican Singer
I've always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we're young, we don't understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it's a blessing to have that support at home.
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Ruben Santiago-Hudson
American Actor
I've never considered being a cop. I could be a teacher, I could be a minister, a social worker or a professor. As long I don't have to see blood and see people die every day, if I could inspire or help in their lives, that's something I'd want to do.
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Lapo Elkann
Italian Businessman
You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street.
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Shonda Rhimes
American Producer
My parents are professors; they're intellectual. I spent a lot of time reading books. To me, everyone always looks like they do in your imagination. And in my imagination, the characters always looked like me.
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Jimmy Smits
American Actor
As an actor and as a performer, I've felt that the education system has really helped me in a lot of ways... there was always a teacher or a professor along the way that kept pushing me to the next stage.
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Coco Chanel
French Designer
Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.
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Henry Kissinger
American Statesman
I have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes.
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Katherine Johnson
American Mathematician
Many professors tell you that you'd be good at this or that, but they don't always help you with that career path.
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Nadya Suleman
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I respect teachers and professors.
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