"I looked in vain for my chance, believing to find it in the trade; it closed the door in my face and put the key in its pocket", said the emeritus artist late Taleb Rabah in his song "The luck".
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Emeritus
//ɪˈmɛɹɪtəs//
Synonyms for "emeritus" (20 found)
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Related words (10)
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Translations
34 translations across 25 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- emeritus noun (person who is retired from active service or an occupation, especially one who retains an honorific version of a previous title)
Catalan
1 entries- emèrit adj (retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 名譽退休 /名誉退休 adj (retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title)
- 榮譽退休 /荣誉退休 adj (retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title)
- 榮休 /荣休 noun (person who is retired from active service or an occupation, especially one who retains an honorific version of a previous title)
Czech
1 entries- emeritní adj (retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title)
Danish
1 entries- emeritus adj (retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title)
Dutch
1 entries- emeritus adj (retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title)
Esperanto
1 entries- emerito noun (person who is retired from active service or an occupation, especially one who retains an honorific version of a previous title)
Finnish
2 entries- emeritus adj (retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title)
- emeritus noun (person who is retired from active service or an occupation, especially one who retains an honorific version of a previous title)
French
1 entries- émérite adj (retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title)
German
2 entries- emeritiert adj (retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title)
- emeritus adj (retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title)
Hebrew
1 entries- בדימוס adj (retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title)
Hungarian
2 entries- emeritus adj (retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title)
- nyugalmazott adj (retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title)
Italian
1 entries- emerito adj (retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title)
Japanese
1 entries- 名誉 adj (retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title)
Macedonian
2 entries- по́чесен adj (retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title)
- по́чесно ли́це noun (person who is retired from active service or an occupation, especially one who retains an honorific version of a previous title)
Polish
1 entries- honorowy adj (retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title)
Portuguese
1 entries- emérito adj (retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title)
Romanian
1 entries- emerit adj (retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title)
Russian
1 entries- почётный adj (retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- emeritus adj (retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title)
- emeritus noun (person who is retired from active service or an occupation, especially one who retains an honorific version of a previous title)
Spanish
1 entries- emérito adj (retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title)
Swedish
3 entries- emeritus adj (retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title)
- emerita noun (person who is retired from active service or an occupation, especially one who retains an honorific version of a previous title)
- emeritus noun (person who is retired from active service or an occupation, especially one who retains an honorific version of a previous title)
Tagalog
1 entries- higlingkurin adj (retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title)
Welsh
1 entries- emeritws adj (retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title)
West-Frisian
1 entries- emearitus adj (retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title)
Sample sentences
58 total sentences available.
“American cities in the late 19th, early 20th century were incredibly unhealthy places,” says Richard White, professor emeritus of American history at Stanford University in California. “High child death rates, repeated epidemics, and much of that was waterborne disease that came from both ineffective sewage and impure water. And infrastructure projects changed that dramatically. Probably it's been the most effective public health effort ever in the history of the United States.”
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Emeritus Professor Andrew Blakers at the university’s College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics told VOA the process involves transferring water between two reservoirs or lakes at different elevations.
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