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An example use of professor in a speech by a native speaker of british english:
“… meeting is with Professor master - head …”
Professor is a title given to a teacher who is an expert in a particular field.
the word professor occurs in english on average 52 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that professor can be often used in the following areas:
1) business and work;
2) education, science, and technology;