proffessor

Noun

professor (plural professors)

1. The most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution.
   • Professor is what you become after teaching for twenty to thirty years.2014 November 22, Michel Clasquin-Johnson, “What is the difference between a research professor and a professor”, in Quora

   Synonyms:

   prof, Prof.

2. (Philippines, US, informal) A teacher or faculty member at a college or university regardless of formal rank.
3. (archaic) One who professes something, such as a religious doctrine.
   • […] I alvvayes thought / It vvas both impious and vnnaturall, / That ſuch immanity and bloody ſtrife / Should reigne among Profeſſors of one Faith.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
4. (obsolete) A practitioner, one who (publicly) practises or teaches an art or skill.
   • Two young men of familiar acquaintance … were one euening at a common Inne of this town (as I haue heard) where the one of them shewed his skill on the Virginals, to the no little contentement of the hearers. Nowe as diuers guests of the house came into the room to listen, so among the rest entered...1592, Robert Green, The Thirde & Last Part of Conny-catching, Bodleian Library (Malone 575), London: John Lane. Reprinted in 1923, Harrison, G. B. (ed.), The Bodley Head Quartos III, Plainstow, Great...
5. (US, slang) A pianist in a saloon, brothel, etc.
   • You could hear […] pianos under the hands of whorehouse professors sounding like they came with keys between the keys.2006, Thomas Pynchon, “(please specify the page)”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN
6. The puppeteer who performs a Punch and Judy show; a Punchman.

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