emeritus
3
8.1
- adjective
- /ɪˈmɛrɪtəs/
- Formal
:
emérito
- The late Lawrence Eitner was Osgoode Hooker professor emeritus of Fine Arts at Stanford.
- emeritus professor
- emeritus professor of physics
- emeritus professor at Harvard
My name is Jill Tarter, my title is emeritus director of SETI Research.
- My name is Jill Tarter, my title is emeritus director of SETI Research.
- Grand Uncle George Gammel Angle, professor emeritus of Semitic languages.
- Tonight's speaker, Doctor Rayner Weiss, is a professor of physics emeritus at MIT and one of the founders of LIGO.
- They went there to camp out amongst these graves and host these parties, which the professor emeritus of history at Yale University calls Chill Outs.
- So one time I was working with Emeritus Professor Shigeru Miyagawa, who is the dear friend of OCW.
- Doctor Will Happer is our chairman emeritus professor from Princeton.
- The late Lawrence Eitner was Osgoode Hooker, professor emeritus of Fine Arts at Stanford.
- Another one I don't don't actually know the Stoics by FH Sandbach, emeritus professor of classics.
Examples
-
But it was not a surprise to Jim Mansell, emeritus professor of learning disability at the University of Kent.
Academic text (2011) -
John M. Swomley is an emeritus professor of social ethics at St. Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Missouri.
Academic text (1997) -
And this episode is with Frank Jackson, who is emeritus professor at the Australian National University.
-
" Under the date appeared the name of an emeritus English professor: " Max Putzel."
Fiction book (2000) -
Hello, I'm Craig Wright, now Professor Emeritus of Music at Yale.
-
JT Black is a professor emeritus at Auburn University.
Academic text (2005) -
Mary Ellen Benedict is an emeritus distinguished teaching professor at Bowling Green State University.
Academic text (2017) -
Herbert Cole is an emeritus professor of art history at UC Santa Barbara.
Academic text (2007) -
By Doug Wilde, Doug Wilde is emeritus professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford University.
Academic text (2010) -
Frank Jackson is an esteemed emeritus professor at the Australian National University.
Synonyms
1
8.8
A woman who has retired from a professional job and keeps her title as an honor
Surface Forms
Etymology
Emeritus comes from a Latin word that means 'to earn by service' and shares the same root as English merit. So used after a title, as in professor emeritus, it describes someone who has retired but is allowed to keep their title as an honor because they 'earned' it.