PROFESSORATE Synonyms

• the academic world

• the body of faculty and students of a college

• an institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university

• a complex of buildings in which an institution of higher education is housed

• the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill

• the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students); created 1979

• knowledge acquired by learning and instruction

• the gradual process of acquiring knowledge

• the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university)

• the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)

• one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind

• the body of teachers and administrators at a school

• an educational institution

• a building where young people receive education

• the process of being formally educated at a school

• a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers

• the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session

• an educational institution's faculty and students

• a large group of fish

• educate in or as if in a school

• teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment

• swim in or form a large group of fish

• the body of faculty and students at a university

• establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching

• a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees

• a person whose occupation is teaching

• a public lecturer at certain universities

• someone who lectures professionally

• a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines

• someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs

• a student who holds a scholarship