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How to pronounce professor
Say it like this: /pɹəˈfɛs.ɚ/. Listen to real recordings below and compare how it sounds in different accents.
What does professor mean?
nounThe most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution.
“Professor is what you become after teaching for twenty to thirty years.”
A teacher or faculty member at a college or university regardless of formal rank.
One who professes something, such as a religious doctrine.
“As for Religion, I have not said, much lesse meant irreverently of it, or of the Professors thereof.”
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