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professoress

noun

Etymology

From professor + -ess.

  1. derived from professor
  2. derived from proffessur
  3. inherited from professor,professour
  4. suffixed as professoress — “professor + ess”

Definitions

  1. A female professor.

    • At the end of the first cantos, fresh from the description of the female college, with its professoresses, and hostleresses, and other Utopian monsters

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