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adjective

(1) Honorably retired from assigned duties and retaining your title along with the additional title `emeritus' as in `professor emeritus'; `retired from assigned duties' need not imply that one is inactive

noun

(2) A professor or minister who is retired from assigned duties

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Adjective

emeritus

retired, but retaining an honorific version of previous title; especially used with professor.

Noun

A person retired in this sense (feminine form emerita).

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! — Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1955)