emeritus

1. 1.

   a professor or minister who is retired from assigned duties

   Broaderretiree

1. 1.

   honorably retired from assigned duties and retaining your title along with the additional title `emeritus' as in `professor emeritus'

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Other forms of emeritus

plural

emerituses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about emeritus

What does emeritus mean?

emeritus means "a professor or minister who is retired from assigned duties". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in emeritus?

emeritus has 4 syllables: e-mer-i-tus. The stress falls on "mer". In IPA it is /ɪˈmɛɹətəs/.

Is emeritus a common word?

emeritus is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.