professorship

American  

[pruh-fes-er-ship] / prəˈfɛs ərˌʃɪp /

noun

1. the office or post of a professor.

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Other Word Forms

• subprofessorship noun

Etymology

Origin of professorship

First recorded in 1635–45; professor + -ship

Example Sentences

LeCun said he wasn’t going to leave New York or quit his professorship.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

The university has a research collaboration with the company for aerospace scholarship, offers professional education programs to current Boeing employees and is home to a professorship and department named after Boeing.

From Seattle Times • May 1, 2024

Robert Reinecke was appointed to a junior professorship at JGU's Institute of Geography in May 2023.

From Science Daily • Oct. 13, 2023

“I definitely think it should go,” Ms. James-Chakraborty said in an interview, adding “there’s no one building or one professorship, or whatever the parents may be in a position to donate, that justifies that.”

From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2023

At the age of twenty-two he returned to Glasgow University to take up a professorship in natural philosophy, a position he would hold for the next fifty-three years.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson