noun
Meaning 1
Professors considered as a group or body.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
professoriate
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noun
Meaning 2
The office of a professor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
Examples
- 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.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: professorship
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Alteration of professorate, after either patriciate, etc., or professorial.
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: càtedra — the office of a professor
- Chinese Mandarin: 教授職銜 /教授职衔 (jiàoshòu zhíxián) — the office of a professor
- Chinese Mandarin: 教授職位 /教授职位 (jiàoshòu zhíwèi) — the office of a professor
- Danish: professorat — the office of a professor
- Finnish: professuuri — the office of a professor
- German: Professur — the office of a professor
- Hungarian: tanszék — the office of a professor
- Irish: ollúnacht — the office of a professor
- Italian: professorato — the office of a professor
- Italian: ordinariato — the office of a professor
- Italian: cattedra — the office of a professor
- Norwegian Bokmål: professorat — the office of a professor
- Norwegian Nynorsk: professorat — the office of a professor
- Polish: profesura — the office of a professor
- Portuguese: professorado — the office of a professor
- Portuguese: magistério — the office of a professor
- Romanian: profesură — the office of a professor
- Spanish: cátedra — the office of a professor
- Spanish: profesorado — the office of a professor
- Volapük: profäsor — the office of a professor