university professor

American  

noun

1. a professor entitled to teach courses in more than one field or discipline at a university.

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Etymology

Origin of university professor

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

These messages are deeply troubling, and there is plenty of criticism to heap on Summers, who now holds Harvard’s highest faculty honor as a university professor.

From Slate • Nov. 24, 2025

Summers holds Harvard’s highest faculty distinction as a university professor and has taught at the school for years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

Now a university professor, she also leads a genetics education centre and works to expand testing in the north-east of Brazil.

From BBC • May 11, 2025

For the past 13 years, he has worked as a clinical university professor of biomedical engineering at the Florida Institute of Technology, according to his LinkedIn.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2025

After the meeting I met an Irish girl who worked for an advertising agency, a girl who did social work, a schoolteacher, and the wife of a prominent university professor.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright