Professor
Professor noun - Someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university.
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Synonyms for Professor
Sub and professor are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sub" instead a noun "Professor".
Sub
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Professor MacDougal thinks all Indians are savage members of a sub-human (read: sub-white) race and treats them as such.
Source: Deliberate Values Dissonance -
An episode of How I Met Your Mother had a sub-plot in which Ted was given a whip and a fedora upon becoming a professor.
Source: Whip It Good - The Blot is about a professor and his poor family struggling to get by on the sub-poverty wages paid to university professors.
Source: Kitchen Sink Drama
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Sub and Professor. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/professor/sub
Professor & Sub. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/professor/sub>.
Sub or Professor. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/professor/sub.
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