Usually means: Retired but retaining honorary title.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word emeritus:

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  1. emeritus: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. emeritus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. emeritus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. emeritus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. emeritus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Emeritus, emeritus: Wordnik
  7. emeritus: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. emeritus: Wiktionary
  9. emeritus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. emeritus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. emeritus: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Emeritus, emeritus: Dictionary.com
  13. emeritus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Emeritus (album), Emeritus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Emeritus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. emeritus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. emeritus: Rhymezone
  18. Emeritus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. emeritus: Free Dictionary
  20. emeritus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. emeritus: Dictionary/thesaurus

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. emeritus: Political
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Emeritus: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See emeriti as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (often postpositive) Retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title.
noun:  (plural emeriti or (rare) emerituses) A (male) person who is retired from active service or an occupation, especially one who retains an honorific version of a previous title.
noun:  (rare, plural emerituses) An honorific version of a previous title.

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