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Plural of professor

regular plural

The plural of professor is professors.

Forms of professor

Singularprofessor /pɹəˈfɛs.ə/
Pluralprofessors
Countablecountable

Professors in a sentence

  • The professors' communications consisted of lively discussions via email.From the entry communication
  • All first-year professors here must teach four courses a term, yet you're only teaching one! What entitled you to such a privilege?From the entry privilege
  • His mother and father, both Stanford Law professors, took turns scribbling notes on a yellow legal pad.2023 October 5, Victoria Bekiempis, “FTX co-founder testifies he committed crimes with Sam Bankman-Fried”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry legal pad
  • In fact, I felt that most of my professors were not good at teaching.2020 December 8, Lutz-Christian Wolff, “What Makes a Good Law Teacher?”, in The Art of Law Teaching (SpringerBriefs in Law), Springer…. From the entry state examination
  • In those old days there was also not much contact between students and the professors.2020 December 8, Lutz-Christian Wolff, “What Makes a Good Law Teacher?”, in The Art of Law Teaching (SpringerBriefs in Law), Springer…. From the entry state examination

Meaning of professor

  1. noun The most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution.
  2. noun A teacher or faculty member at a college or university regardless of formal rank.
  3. noun One who professes something, such as a religious doctrine.

Full definition of professor

Questions about the plural of professor

What is the plural of professor?
The plural of professor is professors.
Is professor countable?
Professor is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: professor (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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