professoriate noun2 •Professors considered as a group or body.[…] at that moment the whole professoriate was absorbed in one of those great educational crises which from time to time shake a university to its base. — 1914 •(old-fashioned) The office of a professor.A generation that has been reared on the ideas involved in the conservation of energy can hardly understand the position of science when Lord Kelvin began his professoriate. — 1899 formsprofessoriates
