professor.
The most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution.
Meaning & usage
The most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution.
A teacher or faculty member at a college or university regardless of formal rank.
One who professes something, such as a religious doctrine.
A practitioner, one who (publicly) practises or teaches an art or skill.
A pianist in a saloon, brothel, etc.
The puppeteer who performs a Punch and Judy show; a Punchman.
Where this word comes from
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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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.