associate professor

noun

1. a teacher in a college or university who ranks above an assistant professor and below a professor.

associate professor

noun

1. (in the US and Canada) a university teacher lower in rank than a full professor but higher than an assistant professor

2. (in New Zealand) a senior lecturer holding the rank below professor

Other Word Forms

• associate professorship noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of associate professor¹

First recorded in 1815–25

Example Sentences

"We have found so many exoplanets at this point that discovering a new one is not such a big deal," said co-author Paul Robertson, UC Irvine associate professor of physics & astronomy.

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Leonard G. Miller Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, and an associate professor of pathology and human genetics.

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"Chameleon eyes are like security cameras, moving in all directions," explained Juan Daza, associate professor at Sam Houston State University and author of a new study describing the trait.

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Mr. Miller is an associate professor of English at Montclair State University and a MacArthur Fellow.

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Charlene Lam, associate professor of dermatology at Penn State Health and co-author of the study, noted that the elevated cases appear in both rural and urban counties.

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