Pedagogue vs Professor - What's the difference?
pedagogue | professor | Synonyms |
A teacher or instructor of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young.
A pedant; one who by teaching has become overly formal or pedantic in his or her ways; one who has the manner of a teacher.
(historical, Ancient Greece) A slave who led the master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.
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A teacher or faculty member at a college or university.
A higher ranking for a teacher or faculty member at a college or university. Abbreviated
An honorific title for a higher ranking teacher. (Capitalised)
(archaic) One who professes.
* 1897 , Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (transl.) The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage'', Introduction, p. ''v :
(US, slang) A pianist in a saloon, brothel, etc.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 415:
The puppeteer who performs a Punch and Judy show; a Punchman.
Pedagogue is a synonym of professor.
As nouns the difference between pedagogue and professor
is that pedagogue is pedagogue; educator while professor is professor.pedagogue
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Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)- (Goldsmith)
Derived terms
* pedagogic * pedagogical * pedagogically * pedagogyReferences
professor
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(wikipedia professor)Alternative forms
* professour (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- Professor Plum'' or ''Prof. Plum .
- This period in which Abraham the Jew lived was one in which Magic was almost universally believed in, and in which its Professors were held in honour;
- You could hear [...] pianos under the hands of whorehouse professors sounding like they came with keys between the keys.
