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professoriat

professoriat

9.2
The group of senior teachers and researchers who work at a university
  • noun
  • /ˌprɒf.əˈsɔːr.i.æt/
  • Formal
translation icon : profesorado
  • Only 12% of the physics professoriat is currently under age 40.

Examples

  • My neighborhood, called Burns Park, is a lower-upper-middle-class one, comprised of largish houses on quiet, shaded streets, inhabited largely by the professoriat of the University of Michigan, its apparatchiks, and like-minded professionals.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Mary Burgan again opines: "Tenure provides a rigorous method for identifying and then retaining bright candidates for the professoriat."

    Academic text (1997)
  • How can the intellectual marketplace have its rates of exchange established by the professoriat?

    Academic text (1993)
  • During the 1991-92 academic year, the percentage of available openings was about 5.7% of the total professoriat in all physics departments (see table 5).

    Academic text (1993)
  • Gonzalez, a former New York Yankee, is but one of San Pedro's many native sons who have joined its sporting professoriat in recent years as the city has become one large prep school for the baseball world.

    Academic text (1994)
  • The professoriat, betrayed by that gaggle of geese at the Modern Language Association, is responsible for the shrinking prestige of the humanities in the U.S.

    Academic text (1999)
  • The professoriat at many universities is increasingly concerned about the impact of online education.

  • Members of the professoriat often participate in research conferences to share their findings.

  • The strict hiring standards for the professoriat ensure that only the most qualified individuals are selected.

Synonyms

professoriate
vsprofessoriat
  • Formal
1 8.2

All the teachers who work at a college or university

is the same idea but expressed in a different word form
professorate
vsprofessoriat
  • Formal
1 8.0

A group of university teachers or the job of being a university teacher

limits meaning to the group or profession rather than the job

Surface Forms

professoriat singular
professoriats plural

Morphology

professoriat = professor (semi-transparent) = professor + iat

The suffix '-iat' is not a common English suffix, but the connection to 'professor' is clear, referring to a collective group.

Etymology

The word professoriat comes from professor, from a Latin verb meaning 'to say openly', plus the ending -iat, which means a 'group' of people, as in proletariat. So, professoriat is the group or profession of university professors.