Synonyms for professor
prəˈfɛs ərpro·fes·sor

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1. professornoun

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   prof

2. professornoun

   A teacher or faculty member at a college or university.

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   prof

3. professornoun

   A higher ranking for a teacher or faculty member at a college or university. Abbreviated Prof.

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   prof

4. professornoun

   An honorific title for a higher ranking teacher. (Capitalised)

   Professor Plum or Prof. Plum.

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   prof

5. professornoun

   One who professes.

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   prof

6. professornoun

   A pianist in a saloon, brothel, etc.

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   prof

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1. professor, profnoun

   someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university

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   prof

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1. List of paraphrases for "professor":

   teacher, prof., prof, professors, professeur, lecturer, profesor, instructor, teaching, professorships, yue-man, faculty, taught, dr., mr., pr, educator, -professor, schoolteacher, tutor

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1. Qing Tang:

   I showed it to my supervisor [Shuhai Xiao, a professor in the Department of Geosciences at Virginia Tech], and we immediately agreed that this was going to be a very interesting discovery.

2. Laurence Tribe:

   Or, if Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe decides, ‘ I ’m simply not going to protect United States from foreign attack. I ’m busy making money. ’.

3. Daniel Rosenfeld:

   Daniel Rosenfeld, a professor with the Program of Atmospheric Sciences at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The capital actually has existential problems right now, already.

4. Dr. Molyn Leszcz:

   On the Threshold by Professor Pezhman Mosleh is a wonderful tribute to Dr. Yalom.

5. Nancy Baron-Baer:

   We strongly condemn Professor Kaukab Siddique's reported remarks targeting the LGBT community, the Jewish community, and women, such comments are deeply offensive and outrageous, especially coming from a professor whose statements reflect bigoted stereotypes.