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

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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It’s fashionable now to criticize Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic gerontocracy.

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Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi announced she will not seek re-election at the end of her current term in 2027, ending a nearly 40-year career in Congress — and welcoming a potentially robust retirement package, too.

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The entire cast is also among the finest Mr. Carpenter ever assembled, from Hal Holbrook as a tormented priest with a taste for drink to Jamie Lee Curtis as a hitchhiker to Ms. Curtis’s mother, scream queen emerita Janet Leigh, as the busy official in charge of the centenary celebration.

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