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professor

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noun/pɹəˈfɛs.ə//pɹəˈfɛs.ɚ//pɹəˈfes.ə/
  1. 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.
  2. 2

    A teacher or faculty member at a college or university regardless of formal rank.PhilippinesUSinformal

  3. 3

    One who professes something, such as a religious doctrine.archaic

    • This period in which Abraham the Jew lived was one in which Magic was almost universally believed in, and in which its Professors were held in honour;
  4. 4

    A practitioner, one who (publicly) practises or teaches an art or skill.obsolete

    • 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 ho
  5. 5

    A pianist in a saloon, brothel, etc.USslang

    • You could hear […] pianos under the hands of whorehouse professors sounding like they came with keys between the keys.
  6. 6

    The puppeteer who performs a Punch and Judy show; a Punchman.

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