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Professorial

//ˌprɒfəˈsɔːɹiəl// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, relating to, or characteristic of a professor or professors, or of a professorship or professorships.

    "David and I were not "intimate" friends. There was always a certain old-worldly formality about our interchanges. There was something professorial and distant about David, something that commanded respect, partially, I think, because he was so respectful himself."

Adjective
  1. 1
    relating to or characteristic of professors wordnet

Etymology

From Latin professōrius (“professiorial; authoritative”) + -al. By surface analysis, professor + -ial.

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