professor

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n. 教授

发音

UK /pɹəˈfɛs.ə/
CA /pɹəˈfɛs.ɚ/
US /pɹəˈfɛs.ɚ/
AU /pɹəˈfes.ə/
NZ /pɹəˈfes.ə/
IN /prɵˈfɛsə(r)/
其它 /prɵˈfɛsə(r)/
IN /ˈprɵfəsə(r)/
其它 /ˈprɵfəsə(r)/

词形变化

professors 复数 professors

别名

perfesser prof proffesor proffessor professour

释义与例句

n. A2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    The most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution.

  2. 2.

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

    教授

    老师

    美国 非正式
  3. 3.

    One who professes something, such as a religious doctrine.

    古体

    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.

    废旧

    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 an artificiall Conny-catcher, who as occasion serued, in the time of ceissing betweene the seueral toyes and fancies hee plaid: very much commended his cunning, quicke hand, and such qualities praiseworthy in such a professour.

  5. 5.

    A pianist in a saloon, brothel, etc.

    美国 俚语
  6. 6.

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

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

prof

上位词 2

academic academician

下位词 4

assistant professor associate professor regius professor visiting professor

整体词 2

staff faculty

相关短语

professor ordinarius Professor Cube Professor Cubes Professor's Cube extraordinary professor absent-minded professor assistant professor [法] 助教授 associate professor 副教授 regius professor [法] 钦定教授 Regius Professor Regius professor visiting professor [计] 客座教授 research professor adjunct professor n. <美>副教授，兼职教授 little professor

词源

From Middle English professor, professour, from Anglo-Norman proffessur and its etymon Latin professor (“declarer, person who claims knowledge”), from the past participle stem of profiteor (“profess”). By surface analysis, profess + -or.

来源：wiktionary