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professorship

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pro·fes·sor  (pr-fsr)
n.
1.
a. A college or university teacher who ranks above an associate professor.
b. A teacher or instructor.
2. One who professes.
[Middle English professour, from Old French professeur, from Latin professor, from professus, past participle of profitr, to profess; see profess.]
profes·sori·al (prf-sôr-l, -sr-, prf-) adj.
profes·sori·al·ly adv.
pro·fessor·ship n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.professorship - the position of professor; "he was awarded an endowed chair in economics"
chair
berth, billet, post, situation, position, office, place, spot - a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury"
Translations
professorship [prəˈfesəʃɪp] N → cátedra f
to be appointed to a professorship → ser nombrado a or obtener una cátedra
professorship [prəˈfɛsərʃɪp] n → chaire f
professorship
n → Professur f, → Lehrstuhl m
professorship [prəˈfɛsəʃɪp] n → cattedra
professorship [prəˈfɛsəʃɪp] n → cattedra


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The second founded a professorship of experimental chemistry at a northern university.
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It won him a professorship in Boston University; and brought so many pupils around him that he ventured to open an ambitious "School of Vocal Physiology," which became at once a profitable enterprise.
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All this activity had not caused Ruskin altogether to abandon the teaching of art to the members of the more well-to-do classes, and beginning in 1870 he held for three or four triennial terms the newly-established professorship of Art at Oxford and gave to it much hard labor.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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