university professor

noun

1. a professor entitled to teach courses in more than one field or discipline at a university.

Word History and Origins

Origin of university professor¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

A stickler for facts and a practiced debater of foreign affairs, she calls to mind a university professor more than the male retail politicians who have done well in Bavaria in recent years.

From Time

Firing a public university professor for sexual misconduct might seem like a straightforward issue, but it can actually be an incredibly difficult, expensive and lengthy process.

From Voice of San Diego

Also, a lot of university professors and other eggheads have already declared the Freakonomics Radio Book Club to be an excellent idea, that you won’t want to miss out on.

From Freakonomics

Fragrant saffron and sweet onions make this Persian-style chicken and rice a feast for the sensesLike so many immigrants before her, my mother, a university professor and poet by trade, turned to food to provide for the family.

From Washington Post

Gianpiero Petriglieri and his wife, both university professors, have been working from their house outside of Paris, France for nearly a year because of the pandemic.

From Time

Ross is an esteemed paleontologist and university professor.

From The Daily Beast

Perhaps I should have disclosed earlier that I was educated by Jesuits and have been a university professor.

From The Daily Beast

Not long after, Neil retired from NASA, and in the years that followed, he lived the quiet life of a university professor.

From The Daily Beast

Her mother reportedly heads a gynecology unit at a local hospital and her father is a university professor.

From The Daily Beast

Ward Churchill was a university professor, not a member of Congress.

From The Daily Beast

He had much impressed my maid,—alas, that I should have missed the great sight of a University Professor in the panoply of state!

From Project Gutenberg

In connection with them a tiny "minister's study," not unlike the sanctum of a university professor.

From Project Gutenberg

I fancy he could out-argue many a university professor on Russian fiction, or Michelangelo, or steam turbines.

From Project Gutenberg

He ordered to make flock-coat when he became University professor, and it was after my eager advice.

From Project Gutenberg

City being sued by the foreign engineer (once a university professor) for $138,000 odd commission on plans!

From Project Gutenberg