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

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

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

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

"I believe I will recognise my son immediately, even if his face has no features and he is only a skeleton," said Ali Ashour, a university professor, of his 18-year-old boy Mahjoud.

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2025

He’s nuts\ He swears that his university professor had him locked up.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright