professorship
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6.7
- noun
- /prəˈfɛsərˌʃɪp/
- Formal
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- And so Ruth and I came here when he got his professorship.
- an assistant professorship
- a chair professorship
- a visiting professorship
He tries to get a professorship, doesn't work.
- He tries to get a professorship, doesn't work.
- And of course, to Susan and Kenneth Al Wallach for sponsoring the professorship that I hold.
- They've provided support for faculty and students, endowing fellowship, scholarships and professorships.
- She has held Oxford's Harmsworth Professorship, and she has served as president of the Urban History Association.
- It has nothing to do with me as my professorship position.
- That's the official call for that for those professorships.
- And she did that when in in Melbourne where I had a visiting professorship position there.
Examples
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And the professorship in Tokyo so he could be alone with you.
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Sherman, I got a call today, and, well, I've been offered a full professorship at the University of Maine.
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Well you can forget about that associate professorship .
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If I'm finally going to get a full professorship, I need another book.
Fiction book (2002) -
How proud he was when he got the assistant professorship at Illinois.
Fiction book (2002) -
I've been offered a professorship in California.
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The university responded by offering him a professorship (which he did not take).
Academic text (2018) -
In 1915, he left Temple for a professorship in history at the University of Pennsylvania.
Academic text (1994) -
The University of Virginia is honoring the late Julian Bond with an endowed professorship in his name.
Academic text (2016) -
She accepted a full-time professorship at the university after several years of research.
Synonyms
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7.1
A senior university job held by a respected teacher
How Senior
Surface Forms
Morphology
professorship = professor (transparent) = profess + or + ship
Formed by adding the productive suffix '-ship' to 'professor' to denote an office, role, or position; meaning is directly predictable from the base.
Etymology
Professorship The word professorship comes from professor, from the verb profess, which meant 'to declare' or 'to say openly' in Latin. So a professorship is the official job or rank of the person who 'declares' or shares knowledge at a university.