Meanings
plural professorships
- educationThe office of a professor.
She earned a professorship at Los Angeles City College, and taught theatre there for two years.
2022, Claire Chwalek, No Rest for a Heartbreaker, →ISBN1 more example
And as regards histories of art, they are quite valueless to you unless you are seeking the ostentatious oblivion of an art professorship.
1883, Oscar Wilde, “Lecture to Art Students”, in Essays and LecturesSynonyms: professorate
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe office of a professor.
More synonyms by meaning
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Englishprofessor
- Proto-Germanic*skapjaną
- Englishprofessorship
Translations
Catalan càtedra
- càtedrathe office of a professor
Chinese Mandarin 教授職銜 /教授职衔, 教授職位 /教授职位
- 教授職銜 /教授职衔 (jiàoshòu zhíxián)the office of a professor
- 教授職位 /教授职位 (jiàoshòu zhíwèi)the office of a professor
Danish professorat
- professoratthe office of a professor
Finnish professuuri
- professuurithe office of a professor
German Professur
- Professurthe office of a professor
Hungarian tanszék
- tanszékthe office of a professor
Irish ollúnacht
- ollúnachtthe office of a professor
Italian professorato, ordinariato
- professoratothe office of a professor
- ordinariatothe office of a professor
- cattedrathe office of a professor
Norwegian Bokmål professorat
- professoratthe office of a professor
Polish profesura
- profesurathe office of a professor
Portuguese professorado, magistério
- professoradothe office of a professor
- magistériothe office of a professor
Romanian profesură
- profesurăthe office of a professor
Spanish cátedra, profesorado
- cátedrathe office of a professor
- profesoradothe office of a professor
Cite this entry
professorship. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/professorship
“professorship.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/professorship. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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