professoriate

n. 全体教授, 教授职位

词形变化

professoriates 复数 professoriates

别名

professorate professoriat

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Professors considered as a group or body.

    Did these interactions, taken as a whole, reinforce Kennedy’s willingness to reach liberal outcomes in a series of high-profile cases? No less a judge of character than his colleague Scalia thought so, hinting in writing that Kennedy’s leftward bent came from a desire to please the professoriate.

  2. 2.

    The office of a professor.

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    1899, George Francis FitzGerald, Lord Kelvin: Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Glasgow, 1846-1899, Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, Biographical Sketch, p. 6, A generation that has been reared on the ideas involved in the conservation of energy can hardly understand the position of science when Lord Kelvin began his professoriate.

词源

Alteration of professorate, after either patriciate, etc., or professorial.

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