academic vs professor

academic

noun
  • A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice. 

  • A member of the Academy; an academician. 

  • A follower of Plato, a Platonist. 

  • Academic studies. 

  • Academic dress; academicals. 

adj
  • Having a love of or aptitude for learning. 

  • Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato 

  • So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness; inexperienced in practical matters. 

  • Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization. 

  • Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic. 

  • Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance. 

  • In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding. 

  • Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius. 

professor

noun
  • The most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution, informally also known as "full professor." 

  • A teacher or faculty member at a college or university regardless of formal rank. 

  • A pianist in a saloon, brothel, etc. 

  • The puppeteer who performs a Punch and Judy show; a Punchman. 

How often have the words academic and professor occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )