full professor

1. 1.

   a professor of the highest rank

   Broaderprofessor

Questions about full professor

What does full professor mean?

full professor means "a professor of the highest rank".

Is full professor a common word?

full professor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.