Professional vs Professorial - What's the difference?
professional | professorial |
A person who belongs to a profession
A person who earns his living from a specified activity
An expert.
* 1934 , edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 97:
Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
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*:His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;.
That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.
(lb) Expert.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of a professor or professors, or of a professorship or professorships.
* 1997 , Pamela M. Henson, “‘Through Books to Nature’: and the Nature Study Movement”, in Barbara T. Gates and Ann B. Shteir (editors), Natural Eloquence: Women Reinscribe Science , University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN 978-0-299-15484-4,
As adjectives the difference between professional and professorial
is that professional is of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession while professorial is of, relating to, or characteristic of a professor or professors, or of a professorship or professorships.As a noun professional
is a person who belongs to a profession.professional
English
Noun
(wikipedia professional) (en noun)- I have learned that there is a person attached to a golf club called a professional'. Find out who fills that post at the Green Meadow Club; invite the ' professional , urgently, to dine with us this evening.
Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* non-professional, nonprofessional * professionalism * unprofessionalprofessorial
English
Adjective
(en adjective)page 121:
- Adamant that women could not enter the professorial' fraternity, did not appoint any women professors until 1911 and then only in home economics. Comstock regained her ' professorial title only in 1913, after working for many years as a lecturer (Conable 127, 130).