Definition of Professor

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Professor

One who professed, or makes open declaration of, his sentiments or opinions; especially, one who makes a public avowal of his belief in the Scriptures and his faith in Christ, and thus unites himself to the visible church.

One who professed, or publicly teaches, any science or branch of learning; especially, an officer in a university, college, or other seminary, whose business it is to read lectures, or instruct students, in a particular branch of learning; as a professor of theology, of botany, of mathematics, or of political economy.

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Professor Quotations

We think of the noble object for which the professor appears to-night, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.
Stephen Leacock

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Soren Kierkegaard

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
H. L. Mencken

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
W. H. Auden

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
William James

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Carl Sandburg

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
Heraclitus

We didn't even think about it, you know? I used to collect laser discs, and you'd have some college professor analyzing It's a Wonderful Life or Citizen Kane, and now it is pretty funny - the idea of commentary for a silly kid's movie, you know?
Dana Carvey

I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.
Ezra Pound

Professor Translations

professor in Afrikaans is professor
professor in Danish is professor
professor in Dutch is professor
professor in French is prof, professeur
professor in German is Hochschullehrer
professor in Italian is professore
professor in Latin is magister
professor in Swedish is professor

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