colleague
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French collegue, from Latin collega (“a partner in office”), from com- (“with”) + legare (“to send on an embassy”), from lex (“law”).
PronunciationEdit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɑliɡ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒliːɡ/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: col‧league
NounEdit
colleague (plural colleagues)
- A fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate.
- 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 72-3:
- Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. […] Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism. Dr Yoshimoto and his colleagues would like to add liver cancer to that list.
SynonymsEdit
- coworker
- workmate
- See also Thesaurus:associate
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
fellow member of a profession
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See alsoEdit
Do not confuse with:
VerbEdit
colleague (third-person singular simple present colleagues, present participle colleaguing, simple past and past participle colleagued)
- To unite or associate with another or with others.
- Young Fortinbras,/ Holding a weak supposal of our worth/...Colleagued with the dream of his advantage,/...hath not failed to pester us with message/ Importing the surrender of those lands/Lost by his father. - Hamlet (Act I, Scene 2)
Further readingEdit
- colleague in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- colleague in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.