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Spell Bee Word: Professor


What does professor mean?

Word: Professor

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Professor means a senior teacher at a university, usually an expert in one subject.

Synonyms: lecturer, academic

How do you spell professor?

Syllables: pro - fes - sor

Tricky part: The ending is or, as in doctor and sailor, not er.

Watch out for: proffesor, profesor, professer

Memory tip: Many professors are also doctors, and the two job titles end the same way, in or.

Professor in a sentence

Example 1: Her grandfather was a professor of chemistry at a university in Edinburgh.

Example 2: The professor asked the students to read two chapters before the next lecture.

Example 3: Professor Rao spends her summers studying birds in the Western Ghats.

Fun Fact

In British universities professor is usually the top teaching rank, so many lecturers are not professors. In the USA, many university teachers have professor somewhere in their title.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) professor
b) scholer
c) librarien
d) lecturar

Show answer

a) professor. Scholar, lecturer and librarian each have a wrong vowel near the end here.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

frosspoer

a) processor
b) possessor
c) professor
d) profess

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c) professor. The f rules out processor and possessor, and profess leaves two letters unused.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

proffessor

a) r
b) f
c) o
d) s

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b) f. Take one f out and the word is right; the doubling belongs to the s.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A professor is most likely to ____.

a) give lectures at a university
b) teach rhymes to nursery children
c) coach a junior cricket team
d) run a primary school canteen

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a) give lectures at a university

2. Which job title, like professor, ends in or?

a) author
b) teacher
c) manager
d) lecturer

Show answer

a) author

Associated Words

Words that end in -sor: sponsor, compressor, predecessor

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: academic

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