assistant professor
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3.9
- noun
- /əˈsɪstənt prəˈfɛsər/
- US
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profesor asistente
- As an assistant professor, he is responsible for teaching undergraduate courses.
- PhD assistant professor
- assistant professor of music
- assistant professor of education
Welcome Sugatho Rohit Day is a lawyer and assistant professor of history at Yale.
- Welcome Sugatho Rohit Day is a lawyer and assistant professor of history at Yale.
- And it was for a visiting assistant professor position, which would have me teaching a lot.
- And then finally we got him here as an assistant professor.
- She's also an assistant professor at NYU Health.
- It's a he was a assistant professor at Stony Brook.
- OK, So all right, I'm teaching at San Diego State young assistant professor.
- Doctor Olga Rusakovsky, now graduated an assistant professor at Princeton, founded a chapter there as well.
- Doctor Olga Rusakowski, now graduated an assistant professor at Princeton, founded a chapter there as well.
Examples
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His first position had been as an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Nebraska.
Fiction book (1991) -
I took a position as assistant professor of zoology here at Indiana University.
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I am an assistant professor.
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And it was for a visiting assistant professor position, which would have me teaching a lot.
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I'm an assistant professor at Columbia.
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Robin Giebelhausen is an assistant professor of music education at the University of New Mexico.
Academic text (2015) -
The normal teaching load for assistant professors in those days was four courses per semester.
Academic text (1999) -
I had finally landed a job in my field: assistant professor of anthropology at Denver University.
Fiction book (1990) -
She's also an assistant professor at NYU Health.
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Joshua R. Hendrickson is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Mississippi.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
∞
3.2
A senior teacher and researcher at a university or college
∞
1.0
A person who gives lessons to students in a school or college
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7.9
A college or university teacher who gives lectures and advice to students
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2.9
A person who teaches a subject or skill in a class
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3.9
A person who teaches or does research at a university
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3.5
A teacher or researcher who works at a university
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8.9
A university teacher who ranks below a full professor
Antonyms
How Senior
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3.0
∞
3.2
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3.7
- US
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3.9
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3.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'assistant' denotes a subordinate or supporting rank and 'professor' denotes an academic teacher, so an 'assistant professor' is transparently a professor at a lower rank. This role-based modifier + noun pattern is common across languages and standard in English job titles, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Assistant professor comes from putting together assistant (someone who 'helps') and professor (a university teacher). It originally named a teacher who helped a full professor, so today it means a university teacher in a lower position than more senior professors.