emerita

[ih-mer-i-tuh]

adjective

1. (of a woman) retired or honorably discharged from active professional duty, but retaining the title of one's office or position.

   Kate Johnson, Professor Emerita of Music.

noun

plural

emeritae 

1. a woman with such status.

Word History and Origins

Origin of emerita¹

< Latin, feminine of ēmeritus emeritus

Example Sentences

While the Chamber of Commerce and other business groups fiercely opposed the bill, its supporters felt raising pay stimulated economic growth and eliminated unfair competition, ultimately benefiting men as well as women, says Rutgers University history and labor-studies professor emerita Dorothy Sue Cobble, author of “For the Many: American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality.”

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“Plenty of time and circumstance” to allow “these animals to perfect staggering biological feats unlike any we see on land,” writes Ms. Harvell, a professor emerita at Cornell University and a science envoy for the U.S.

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Summers courted him to help fund an online poetry project being developed by his wife, now an emerita Harvard literature professor.

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Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, who worked closely with Newsom to secure funding for the Prop 50 campaign in California, said she expects some Republicans may actually be relieved.

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The president brought up his two impeachments, referring to Democrats as “scum,” and recounted a bizarre story about Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi finding out that his infamous call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had been taped.

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