visiting professor
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈvɪzɪtɪŋ prəˈfɛsər/
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profesor visitante
- I had the good fortune to spend a semester in 1990 as a visiting professor at Hamilton Teachers College, New Zealand.
- visiting professor at the University
- serve as a visiting professor
- visiting professor at colleges
Examples
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From 1982 to 1987, he was a visiting professor at Arizona State University and did research.
Academic text (1998) -
Shiva has served as a visiting professor at colleges and universities in every area of the world.
Academic text (1994) -
You might say I'm a visiting professor who might be staying for a little while.
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Not a Tuck professor, but a visiting professor from Imperial College in London.
Blog text (25) -
From 2007 to 2008, he was a visiting professor with the University of Ulm, Germany.
Academic text (2018) -
Mr. Liu was a colleague in the foreign languages department where I spent a year as a visiting professor.
Fiction book (1991) -
William Nichols is a visiting professor at Dartmouth.
Academic text (2007) -
Students routinely receive additional clinical supervision from adjunct and visiting professors associated with the program.
Academic text (1991) -
Francesco Giavazzi is a professor of economics at Bocconi University and a visiting professor at MIT.
Blog text (4) -
In 1996, I was a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin, where I taught courses on American literature.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'visiting' qualifies 'professor' to indicate a professor who is visiting or temporarily at the institution, so a learner who knows 'visiting' (to go to/attend temporarily) and 'professor' can infer the full meaning. This adjectival modifier pattern is common in English and many other languages, making the expression immediately understandable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Visiting professor: The term visiting professor comes from the image of a professor who is visiting another school like a 'guest'. That image explains the meaning: it is a teacher from another university who comes to work at the school for a short time.