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Retired prof's title
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emeritus
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. honorably retired from assigned duties and retaining your title along with the additional title `emeritus' as in `professor emeritus'; `retired from assigned duties' need not imply that one is inactive [syn: retired ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. retired, but retaining an honorific version of previous title (qualifier: especially "professor"). n. A person retired in this sense (feminine form emerita).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from Latin emeritus "veteran soldier who has served his time," noun use of adjective meaning literally "that has finished work, past service," past participle of emerere "serve out, complete one's service," from assimilated form of ex- "out" (see ...
Usage examples of emeritus.
An old emeritus professor, Doctoran Hildegard, who was famed for his agnosticism, sipped his and announced that he now had evidence of the existence of the Deity.
Professor Emeritus Evan Joyce, happily retired at sixty-odd to a decrepit but spacious cottage up the valley with his books, was busily engaged in not writing his long-projected history of Goliard poets, and almost any distraction was enough to justify him in never getting it beyond the note stage.
Emeritus Evan Joyce lived in a rambling stone cottage a little way up the valley, with half an acre of garden, a few old fruit trees, about seven thousand books which lined the walls of all the rooms, and a handsome old desk of enormous proportions, situated in a large window and admirable for spreading out several files of notes, translations and authorities, without actually adding a line to the manuscript about the Goliard poets.
Before the year was out, the emeritus portress reigned in the establishment of the two old bachelors, as she reigned everywhere in the house belonging to M.
David Sansing, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Mississippi, has been very helpful to me in my research, as has longtime Jackson journalist Bill Minor.
In the chill that lingered long after the McCarthy era ended, Struik had been refused an emeritus post at MIT and was unable to find another teaching position in the United States, so he had moved back to his homeland, where he was welcomed at the University of Utrecht.
Jan Jelinek, Director Emeritus, Anthropos Institute, Brno, Czechoslovakia, for his unfailing kindness, assistance, and astute observations and interpretations of the rich Upper Paleolithic artifacts of the region.
Francis Crick, the eighty-five-year-old president emeritus of Salk, still shows up at his office.
His acceptability to the Emperor Kalif and the College of Exarchs seemed a foregone conclusion, given the support of the Emeritus Kalif.
An old emeritus professor, Doctoran Hildegard, who was famed for his agnosticism, sipped his and announced that he now had evidence of the existence of the Deity.
Lord Cams, the Emeritus Kalif, Kusu Lormagen, Artus Romlar, Lotta Alsnor-Romlar, and Kari Frensler were there.
Kristal's gray eyes looked at the people at his conference table: Lord Cams, the Emeritus Kalif, Kusu Lormagen, Artus Romlar, Lotta Alsnor-Romlar, and Kari Frensler were there.
My knowledge of the thing began in the winter of 1926-7 with the death of my great-uncle, George Gammell Angell, Professor Emeritus of Semitic Languages in Brown University Providence, Rhode Island.
Robert Pease, Professor Emeritus of Physical Climatology at the University of California, Riverside.
As Robert Pease, professor emeritus of physical climatology at the University of California, Riverside, says, "Ozone in the atmosphere is not in finite supply.