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

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university professor

“Fabulous,” concluded Álvaro Muñoz, 41 a university professor from Colombia, after viewing the paintings of Kahlo and others.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

Marsh, a university professor, couldn’t have pulled that off when she lived in Baltimore and flew out of BWI and Washington Dulles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025

One male university professor told her: "it could have been me!"

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025

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

Instead of being a forest-insect field researcher, he is now a university professor.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood