EMERITUS

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 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'

  Familiarity information: EMERITUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMERITUS (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Honorably retired from assigned duties and retaining your title along with the additional title 'emeritus' as in 'professor emeritus'

Similar:

old ((used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age)

 Context examples 

Experiments carried out with diverse marine bacteria shed light on the processes by which barite precipitates in bacterial biofilms from the bioaccumulation of barium in bacterial cells and extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), Francisca Martínez Ruiz and María Teresa González Muñoz, researcher from the Andalusian Earth Sciences Institute (IACT) and professor emeritus of the Department of Microbiology at the UGR, respectively, explain.

(Researchers discover the oceanic precipitation mechanism for barium, which is a proxy for marine bacterial productivity, University of Granada)