Professorship
[prə'fɛsɚʃɪp]
Definition
(noun.) the position of professor; 'he was awarded an endowed chair in economics'.
Edited by Hattie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The office or position of a professor, or public teacher.
Typed by Jerry
Examples
- So Galileo did, and as a result the senate elected him to the Professorship at Padua for life, with a salary of one thousand florins yearly. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The second founded a professorship of experimental chemistry at a northern university. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- As already stated, it was never my intention to remain in the army long, but to prepare myself for a professorship in some college. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Boston University offered him a professorship, and he opened a School of Vocal Physiology, which paid him well. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
Editor: Rebekah