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full professor

full professor

noun

  1. a university teacher of the highest academic rank
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of full professor1

An Americanism dating back to 1930–35
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Example Sentences

Instead, he became a member of the faculty at Columbia from 1950 to 1971, rising to the rank of full professor.

It occurred when he became a full professor with tenure at Syracuse University.

In 1990, he was recruited to Yale, where he became a full professor in 1994.

That would give you $70,000 to $80,000 a year for a full professor.

She discharged her duties so successfully that in 1884 she was appointed full professor.

In 1853 he became professor extraordinarius of theology at Leiden, and in 1855 full professor.

Why, even a full professor seldom gets more than four thousand—in most cases less.

In 1891 he was appointed lecturer in physics at Stockholm and four years later became full professor.

They've made Buchanan a full professor, and there isn't a man in college who can tell what he's talking about.

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