Professour vs Professor - What's the difference?
professour | professor | Alternative forms |
* 1768 , James Boswell, An account of Corsica (page 197)
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.
Professor is a alternative form of professour.
As nouns the difference between professour and professor
is that professour is archaic form of lang=en while professor is a teacher or faculty member at a college or university.professour
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
professor
English
(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.
