professorship

American

[pruh-fes-er-ship] / prəˈfɛs ərˌʃɪp /

noun

the office or post of a professor.

Other Word Forms

subprofessorship noun

Etymology

Origin of professorship

First recorded in 1635–45; professor + -ship

Vocabulary lists containing professorship

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Example Sentences

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LeCun said he wasn’t going to leave New York or quit his professorship.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

"Ecological zones are often very similar across national borders," explains David Wuepper, who was appointed to a new professorship in the University of Bonn's PhenoRob Cluster of Excellence as recently as April 2023.

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2023

By 1991, he had moved to Seattle, which was his permanent home until 2006, when he accepted an offer of professorship at the University of Texas at Austin.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 2023

The jury acquitted Ridley-Thomas of 12 other charges related to a scholarship and a professorship that his son, Sebastian, received from USC.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2023

Just before his departure for Europe, the university had granted him an assistant professorship at a salary of $3,000.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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