professor

Other forms of professor

plural

professors·

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 professor

What does professor mean?

professor means "someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university".

How many syllables are in professor?

professor has 3 syllables: pro-fes-sor. The stress falls on "fes". In IPA it is /pɹəˈfɛsɚ/.

What is another word for professor?

Close synonyms include prof. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is professor a common word?

professor is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.