professorship
[pruh-fes-er-ship]
- the office or post of a professor.
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Origin of professorship
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Related Words for professorship
throne, chairperson, monitor, fellowship, director, tutor, helm, captain, leader, principal, tutorship, professorship, instructorship, professorateExamples from the Web for professorship
Contemporary Examples of professorship
Is it difficult to balance your professorship with your career as an author?
Did Elizabeth Warren, who is 1/32 Cherokee, obtain a Harvard professorship with help from her “minority” status?
Historical Examples of professorship
A sheriffship and a professorship are fatal to literary industry.
But what will you live on, since, as a Jew, you can't get any post or professorship in Prussia?
Dreamers of the GhettoI. Zangwill
At Bologna this professorship is said to have existed in 1125.
The Civilisation of the Renaissance in ItalyJacob Burckhardt
He founded a convent for Sufis and a professorship of jurisprudence.
Mystics and Saints of IslamClaud Field
For, of course, he wants to consult me about the Cambridge professorship.
Stories of Authors, British and AmericanEdwin Watts Chubb
Word Origin and History for professorship
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