professoriate
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professoriate
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Alteration of professorate, after either patriciate, etc., or professorial.
noun professoriates · professorate · professoriat
- Professors considered as a group or body. A satirical work, published in 1721, speaks of the chairs which were allowed to exist as habitually filled by persons utterly incompetent; and though we cannot tell how far to believe its details, something of the kind must be supposed to have taken place in order to account for the discredit into w
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The office of a professor.
1899, George Francis FitzGerald, Lord Kelvin: Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Glasgow, 1846-1899, Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, Biographical Sketch, p. 6,
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noun the office of a professor
| Español | cátedra, profesorado |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 教授職銜 /教授职衔 jiàoshòu zhíxián, 教授職位 /教授职位 jiàoshòu zhíwèi |
| Português | professorado, magistério |
| Deutsch | Professur |
| Italiano | professorato, ordinariato, cattedra |
| Română | profesură |
Talk about this word "professoriate." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/professoriate. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. professoriate. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/professoriate "professoriate." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/professoriate.Cite this
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