Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

professour

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pro-fes-sour
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Archaic form of professor.

Archaic

Example Sentences

"There are at Corte, some pretty good halls, where the professours give their lectures. But it cannot be expected that they should as yet have any thing like the regular buildings of a college."

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

professours (plural)

Questions

What does professour mean?: Archaic form of professor.

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