professor

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

pro·fes·sor [professor professors] BrE [prəˈfesə(r)] NAmE [prəˈfesər] (also informal prof) noun (abbr.Prof.)
1. (especially BrE) (NAmE ˈfull professor)a university teacher of the highest rank
•Professor (Ann) Williams
•a chemistry professor
•to be appointed Professor of French at Cambridge
•He was made (a) professor at the age of 40.  Full professor is used to describe a rank of university teacher, and not as a title.
2. (NAmE)a teacher at a university or college
compare ↑assistant professor, ↑associate professor
See also: ↑full professor ▪ ↑prof

Word Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin professor, from profess- ‘declared publicly’, from the verb profiteri, from pro- ‘before’ + fateri ‘confess’.

Thesaurus:
professor noun C
•my professor at Harvard
lecturer • • fellow • • tutor • |BrE don •
a professor/lecturer/fellow/tutor/don at sth
a professor/lecturer in sth
a/an senior/distinguished/honorary professor/lecturer/fellow
be made/appointed professor/lecturer/fellow

Example Bank:
•I spent six months as a visiting professor at Brown University.
•Jennifer Bradbery, emerita professor/professor emerita of surgery
•a research professor at the University of Southern California
•a respected law professor at a prestigious university
•an eminent professor of English
•He is a distinguished professor of law at the University of Illinois.
•He was made a professor at the age of 40.
•Professor Smith
•She is a former history professor.
•She was my professor when I was a grad student.
•The opening address will be given by Professor Montgomery, professor emeritus of microbiology at Birkbeck College.
•The report was written by two Harvard professors.