Professorial is an English word with synonyms like academician or academic. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Professorial in a sentence
Professorial meaning
Of, relating to, or characteristic of a professor or professors, or of a professorship or professorships.
Synonyms of Professorial
Using Professorial
- The main meaning on this page is: Of, relating to, or characteristic of a professor or professors, or of a professorship or professorships.
- Useful related words include: academician, academic, faculty member.
- In the example corpus, professorial often appears in combinations such as: his professorial, the professorial, rather professorial.
Context around Professorial
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 5 middle, 11 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Professorial
- In this selection, "professorial" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 21.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ostentatiously, intellectual, bac, stints and globe stand out and add context to how "professorial" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 75 of professorial positions and accepted a professorial assistantship through. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "professorial" sits close to words such as abattoirs, abike and ablative, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with professorial
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Both institutions are interested in professorial exchanges. (7 words)
His arrest took place three days to his professorial interview. (10 words)
Behind his glasses and somewhat shambling manner, Blackwelder looks ever so professorial. (12 words)
For a month he was quite enamored with his professorial role. citation Suddenly, on 7 November, after giving only five classes to his select group of 24 students, he announced that he had taught them all that he knew. (39 words)
M. Niaz Asadullah, Head of the Southeast Asia cluster of the Global Labor Organization, is a visiting professor of economics at the University of Reading and a professorial fellow at North South University in Bangladesh. (35 words)
Bakunin's increasing radicalism – including staunch opposition to imperialism in east and central Europe by Russia and other powers – changed his life, putting an end to hopes of a professorial career. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
Bespectacled and “rather professorial in manner,” as he was described in the magazine profile, Dr. Field more than made up for his lack of flash.
In addition, the fact that Ratzinger was a shy man with a professorial bac.
She continues to promote Japanese culture and society through her research and professorial stints at the University of the Philippines,” it added.
The professorial globe-trotter is accompanied by his goddaughter, Helena (Phoebe Waller-Bridge), in a race against a former Nazi (Mads Mikkelsen) for the treasure.
M. Niaz Asadullah, Head of the Southeast Asia cluster of the Global Labor Organization, is a visiting professor of economics at the University of Reading and a professorial fellow at North South University in Bangladesh.
Moreover, appointment or promotion of staff to professorial cadre is neither a matter of senate nor emergency.
Not that he’s ostentatiously professorial, his otherwordliness just a different way of showing off.
His hair and beard turned white, and he emerged from incarceration looking rather professorial.
Although he is a commercial writer, there is an intellectual professorial side to him.
Both institutions are interested in professorial exchanges.
Behind his glasses and somewhat shambling manner, Blackwelder looks ever so professorial.
Hahn has accepted a professorial assistantship through MSU’s Honors College, where she will be working under one of her professors to complete 8-10 hours of research a week.
His arrest took place three days to his professorial interview.
In other SUCs, there were some faculty members whose points have reached the level professor but they could not apply for professorial rank due to lack of publication.
It is worth noting that the majority of lecturers and senior lecturers in the UK are female, in a sector in which men still occupy over 75% of professorial positions.
While da Silva is charismatic and has an everyman touch, Haddad is a political science teacher turned education minister who comes off as professorial.
Bakunin's increasing radicalism – including staunch opposition to imperialism in east and central Europe by Russia and other powers – changed his life, putting an end to hopes of a professorial career.
For a month he was quite enamored with his professorial role. citation Suddenly, on 7 November, after giving only five classes to his select group of 24 students, he announced that he had taught them all that he knew.
From 1867 to 1878, Tchaikovsky combined his professorial duties with music criticism while continuing to compose.
In 1926 he became the professorial head of department of the Institut für Physikalische Chemie und Elektrochemie.
Common combinations with professorial
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: