Collocations for "professor"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "professor" in context.
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professor
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [math, Spanish, history] professor
- a professor of [math]
- a professor in the [math] department
- a professor with [a PhD, an MBA]
- a professor at [Harvard, Colombia, Oxford]
- [a tenured, an adjunct, an assistant, an associate] professor
- is the professor in residence
- the professor [got, earned] (her) tenure
- my (least) favorite professor
- a [good, passionate, boring] professor
- the professor is (very) [good]
- learned [a lot, nothing] from my professor
- see the professor after class
- the professor's [class, lecture]
- [wants, is trying] to become a professor
- works as a university professor
- [corrected, marked, reviewed, evaluated] by the professor
'professor' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
English
- Greek
- arrogant
- articulate
- bad-tempered
- comment
- drone
- eccentric
- economic
- engineering
- enlighten
- exchange
- former
- guidance
- history
- interrupt
- investigation
- knowledgeable
- language
- lecture
- lie
- look
- marry
- math
- mechanic
- meet
- pressure
- pupil
- review
- scowl
- speak
- stint
- study
- stuffy
- stump
- succeed
- telephone
- tenure
- wacky
- worship