Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

research professor

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.78 in modern English

Syllables: re-search pro-fes-sor
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A full professor who is exclusively or mainly engaged in research, and who has few or no teaching obligations.

Example Sentences

"Professor is what you become after teaching for twenty to thirty years. Research Professor is what you then want to become, so you can finally stop worrying about students and do the research that lured you into academia in the first place!"

Inflected Forms

research professors (plural)

Questions

What does research professor mean?: A full professor who is exclusively or mainly engaged in research, and who has few or no teaching obligations.

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