profess

Meaning

1. (transitive) To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order.
2. (reflexive) To declare oneself (to be something).
3. (ambitransitive) To declare; to assert, affirm.
4. (transitive) To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity.
5. (transitive) To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.).
6. (transitive) To work as a professor of; to teach.
7. (archaic, transitive) To claim to have knowledge or understanding of (a given area of interest, subject matter).

Synonyms

confess

admit

acknowledge

pretend

declare

claim

concede

avow

maintain

state

contend

assert

plead

worship

own

announce

argue

proclaim

communicate

conduct

counterfeit

deliver

dissemble

dissimulate

do

educate

embrace

feign

fink

formulate

give

give away

give notice

ground

incur

insist

instruct

keep

learn

make out

notify

operate

post

practice

preach

presume

promulgate

pronounce

propagate

purport

Translations

profesar

déclarer

professare

avouer

confesar

confessare

confesser

ομολογώ

professer

professar

bekennen

erkennen

verklaren

erklären

toegeven

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɹəˈfɛs/

Etymology

From Old French professer, and its source, the participle stem of Latin profitērī, from pro- + fatērī (“to confess, acknowledge”).