professorial

CIDE DICTIONARY

professorial, a. [L. professorius: cf. F. professorial.].

 Of or pertaining to a professor; as, the professional chair; professional interest.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

professorial

academic, bookish, devoted to studies, diligent, donnish, dryasdust, mandarin, owlish, pedagogic, pedantic, preceptorial, professorlike, rabbinic, scholarly, scholastic, schoolmastering, schoolmasterish, schoolmasterlike, schoolmasterly, schoolmistressy, schoolteacherish, schoolteachery, studious, teacherish, teacherlike, teachery, teachy, tutorial

ROGET THESAURUS

professorial

Teacher

N teacher, trainer, instructor, institutor, master, tutor, director, Corypheus, dry nurse, coach, grinder, crammer, don, governor, bear leader, governess, duenna, disciplinarian, professor, lecturer, reader, prelector, prolocutor, preacher, chalk talker, khoja, pastor, schoolmaster, dominie, usher, pedagogue, abecedarian, schoolmistress, dame, monitor, pupil teacher, expositor, preceptor, guide, guru, mentor, pioneer, apostle, missionary, propagandist, munshi, example, professorship, tutelage, professorial, qui doet discet.