professorate
professorate is the alternative form of professoriate.
Meaning of professoriate
Noun
professoriate (plural professoriates)
- Professors considered as a group or body.
- A satirical work, published in 1721, speaks of the chairs which were allowed to exist as habitually filled by persons utterly incompetent; and though we cannot tell how far to believe its details, something of the kind must be supposed to have taken place in order to account for the discredit into...1850, “Report of the Adjourned Debate in the House of Commons on the English Universities”, in The North British Review, volume 14, page 183
- The office of a professor.
- A generation that has been reared on the ideas involved in the conservation of energy can hardly understand the position of science when Lord Kelvin began his professoriate.1899, George Francis FitzGerald, Lord Kelvin: Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Glasgow, 1846-1899, Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, Biographical Sketch, p. 6
- Synonyms:
- professorship
Forms of professorate
| plural | professorates |
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Origin of professorate
From professor + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office). Compare French professorat.
Questions about professorate
- What is professorate the alternative form of?
- Professorate is the alternative form of professoriate.
Words near professorate in the dictionary
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