different between professor vs doctorate

English

Alternative forms

• professour (archaic)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman proffessur, from Latin professor (“declarer, person who claims knowledge”), from the past participle stem of profiteor (“profess”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p???f?s?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p???f?s?/
• Rhymes: -?s?(?)

Noun

professor (plural professors)

1. The most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution, informally also known as "full professor." Abbreviated Prof.
2. (US, informal) A teacher or faculty member at a college or university regardless of formal rank.
3. (archaic) One who professes something, such as a religious doctrine.
   • 1897, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (transl.) The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, Introduction, p. v:

     This period in which Abraham the Jew lived was one in which Magic was almost universally believed in, and in which its Professors were held in honour;

4. (US, slang) A pianist in a saloon, brothel, etc.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 415:

     You could hear [...] pianos under the hands of whorehouse professors sounding like they came with keys between the keys.

5. The puppeteer who performs a Punch and Judy show; a Punchman.

Synonyms

• prof

Derived terms

Translations

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin professor (“declarer, person who claims knowledge”).

Noun

professor (definite accusative professoru, plural professorlar)

1. professor

Declension

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin professor.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /p?o.f??so/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /p?u.f??so/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /p?o.fe?so?/

Noun

professor m (plural professors, feminine professora)

1. professor
2. teacher

   Synonyms: mestre, ensenyant

Derived terms

• professorat

Related terms

• professar
• professió

Further reading

• “professor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “professor” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “professor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “professor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch professoor, from Latin professor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pro??f?.s?r/
• Hyphenation: pro?fes?sor

Noun

professor m (plural professoren or professors, diminutive professortje n)

1. professor

Synonyms

• hoogleraar

Derived terms

• professoraal
• professoraat
• professorschap

Latin

Etymology

From professus, from profiteor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pro?fes.sor/, [p???f?s???r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pro?fes.sor/, [p???f?s??r]

Noun

professor m (genitive profess?ris, feminine profestr?x); third declension

1. teacher, professor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• professor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• professor in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin professor

Noun

professor m (definite singular professoren, indefinite plural professorer, definite plural professorene)

1. professor, the highest academic rank at a university

Derived terms

References

• “professor” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “professor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin professor

Noun

professor m (definite singular professoren, indefinite plural professorar, definite plural professorane)

1. professor, the highest academic rank at a university

Related terms

• professorat

References

• “professor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin professor.

Pronunciation

Noun

professor m (plural professors, feminine professora, feminine plural professoras)

1. teacher (person teaches professionally)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin professor.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /p?u.f?.?so?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /p?o.fe.?so?/, [p?ö.fë.?s?o?]
• Hyphenation: pro?fes?sor

Noun

professor m (plural professores, feminine professora, feminine plural professoras)

1. teacher (person teaches professionally)

   Synonyms: docente (chiefly in academic contexts), mestre (dated), educador (has an affectionate or poetic undertone)

2. (Brazil, pro football, slang) coach

   Synonym: treinador

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:professor.

Derived terms

• professorzinho (diminutive), professorinho (diminutive, dated)
• professorzão (augmentative)
• professorado
• professorar

Related terms

• professo
• professar

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: profesor

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

professor c (feminine: professorska (dated))

1. professor; the highest academic rank at a university

Declension

Derived terms

• forskningsprofessor
• adjungerad professor
• biträdande professor
• hedersprofessor
• gästprofessor
• profession
• professor emeritus
• professorstjänst
• professur

See also

• högskoleadjunkt
• högskolelektor
• lektor
• adjunkt

References

Uzbek

Noun

professor (plural professorlar)

1. professor

English

Pronunciation

• (noun:)
  • (UK) enPR: d?k?t?r-?t, IPA^(key): /?d?k.t?.??t/
  • (US) enPR: d?k?t?r-?t, IPA^(key): /?d?k.t??.?t/
• (verb:)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?k.t?.?e?t/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /?d?k.t??.e?t/
• Hyphenation: doc?tor?ate

Noun

doctorate (plural doctorates)

1. The highest degree awarded by a university faculty.

Derived terms

• honorary doctorate
• postdoctorate

Translations

Verb

doctorate (third-person singular simple present doctorates, present participle doctorating, simple past and past participle doctorated)

1. (archaic) To make (someone) into a doctor.
   • 1662, Thomas Fuller, History of the Worthies of England

     He was bred […] in Oxford and there doctorated.

   • 1886, Simon Somerville Laurie, Lectures on the Rise and Early Constitution of Universities:

     Even after Salernum had a teacher of law [...] it could not doctorate in law.

Further reading

• doctorate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• corotated

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /dok.to??ra?.te/, [d??kt?o???ä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /dok.to?ra.te/, [d??kt??????t??]

Verb

doct?r?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of doct?r?