EMERITUS
Dictionary entry overview: What does emeritus mean? • EMERITUS (noun)
The noun EMERITUS has 1 sense:
1. a professor or minister who is retired from assigned duties
Familiarity information: EMERITUS used as a noun is very rare.
• EMERITUS (adjective)
The adjective EMERITUS has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: EMERITUS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• EMERITUS (noun)
Meaning:
A professor or minister who is retired from assigned duties
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("emeritus" is a kind of...):
retired person; retiree (someone who has retired from active working)
• EMERITUS (adjective)
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
emeritus; retired
Similar:
old ((used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age)
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