emerita

American  

[ih-mer-i-tuh] / ɪˈmɛr ɪ tə /

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.

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noun

plural

emeritae

1. a woman with such status.

Etymology

Origin of emerita

< Latin, feminine of ēmeritus emeritus

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Example Sentences

Ms. Boehm is curator emerita of the Met Cloisters and a Chevalier de l’Ordre des arts et des lettres.

From The Wall Street Journal

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.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From Salon

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