emeritus

(noun, adjective)

adjective

1. honorably retired from assigned duties and retaining your title along with the additional title `emeritus' as in `professor emeritus'

Similar word(s): old

noun

1. a professor or minister who is retired from assigned duties

Definition categories: person, retiree

Sentences with emeritus as a noun:

- Oh, you veteran crime reporter, you grave old usher, you once popular policeman, now in solitary confinement after gracing that school crossing for years, you wretched emeritus read to by a boy!