Definition of Professorship

1. Noun. The position of professor. "He was awarded an endowed chair in economics"

Exact synonyms: Chair
Generic synonyms: Berth, Billet, Office, Place, Position, Post, Situation, Spot
Derivative terms: Professor

Definition of Professorship

1. n. The office or position of a professor, or public teacher.

Definition of Professorship

1. Noun. the office of a professor ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Professorship

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Professorship

professionalizing
professionally
professionals
professions
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professorate
professorates
professorial
professorialism
professorially
professoriat
professoriate
professoriates
professoriats
professors
professorship (current term)
professorships
professory
professour
professours
proffer
proffered
profferer
profferers
profferest
proffereth
proffering
proffers
proffre
profibrinolytic

Literary usage of Professorship

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"A professorship of civil engineering in the University of Birmingham with a salary of ... Dr. EH Wolcott has been promoted to a professorship of anatomy; ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"It was also stated that the Drapers' Company would subscribe £800 a year for ten years in support of a professorship of agriculture. ..."

3. The History of Harvard University by Josiah Quincy (1840)
"The Boylston professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory established. ... Citizens of Boston and the Vicinity establish a professorship of ..."

4. The History of Harvard University by Josiah Quincy (1840)
"The Boylston professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory established. ... Citizens of Boston and the Vicinity establish a professorship of Natural History. ..."

5. The American Quarterly Register by American Education Society (1835)
"William Williams, $15,0(10, to endow (he professorship of moral and mental philosophy, called " The Williams professorship." THE last Autumn efforts were ..."

6. A Hand-book for Visitors to Oxford by John Henry Parker, Thomas Orlando Sheldon Jewitt, John Le Keux (1875)
"Regius professorship of Divinity . 3. Regius professorship of Civil Law ... Savilian professorship of Geometry, and 8. Savilian professorship of Astronomy. ..."

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