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professoress

professoress noun: a female professor.

Noun

professoress (plural professoresses)

  1. (archaic) A female professor.
    • At the end of the first cantos, fresh from the description of the female college, with its professoresses, and hostleresses, and other Utopian monsters1850 September, Charles Kingsley, “Tennyson”, in Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time, with Other Papers, author’s edition, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1859, →OCLC, page 187

Synonyms of professoress

Forms of professoress

pluralprofessoresses

Origin of professoress

From professor + -ess.

Questions about professoress

What does professoress mean?
Professoress means a female professor.
What part of speech is professoress?
Professoress is a noun.
What is the plural of professoress?
The plural of professoress is professoresses.

Words near professoress in the dictionary

  1. Professor's Cubes
  2. professorate
  3. professorates
  4. professordom
  5. professores ordinarii
  6. professoress
  7. professoresses
  8. professorial
  9. professorialism
  10. professoriality
  11. professorially

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