What does colleague mean?

Definitions for colleague
ˈkɒl igcol·league

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. colleague, co-worker, fellow worker, workfellownoun

    an associate that one works with

  2. colleague, confrere, fellownoun

    a person who is member of one's class or profession

    "the surgeon consulted his colleagues"; "he sent e-mail to his fellow hackers"

Wiktionary

  1. colleaguenoun

    A fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate

  2. Etymology: From collegue, from collega, from com- + legare, from lex.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. COLLEAGUEnoun

    A partner in office or employment. Anciently accented on the last syllable.

    Etymology: collega, Lat.

    Easy it might be seen that I intend
    Mercy colleague with justice, sending thee. John Milton, P. Lost.

    The regents, upon demise of the crown, would keep the peace without colleagues. Jonathan Swift.

  2. To Colleagueverb

    To unite with.

    Etymology: from the noun.

    Colleagued with this dream of his advantage,
    He hath not fail’d to pester us with message,
    Importing the surrender of those lands. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

Wikipedia

  1. colleague

    Collegiality is the relationship between colleagues. A colleague is a fellow member of the same profession. Colleagues are those explicitly united in a common purpose and respect each other's abilities to work toward that purpose. A colleague is an associate in a profession or in a civil or ecclesiastical office. In a narrower sense, members of the faculty of a university or college are each other's colleagues. Sociologists of organizations use the word 'collegiality' in a technical sense, to create a contrast with the concept of bureaucracy. Classical authors such as Max Weber consider collegiality as an organizational device used by autocrats to prevent experts and professionals from challenging monocratic and sometimes arbitrary powers. More recently, authors such as Eliot Freidson (USA), Malcolm Waters (Australia), and Emmanuel Lazega (France) have said that collegiality can now be understood as a full-fledged organizational form.

ChatGPT

  1. colleague

    A colleague is a person with whom one works in a profession or business, often possessing an equal or similar level of responsibility and status. This individual is hence considered a co-worker or associate within the same organization or working environment.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Colleaguenoun

    a partner or associate in some civil or ecclesiastical office or employment. It is never used of partners in trade or manufactures

  2. Colleague

    to unite or associate with another or with others

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Colleague

    kol′ēg, n. one associated with others in some employment—not of partners in business.—n. Coll′eagueship. [Fr. collègue—L. collegacol, together, and legĕre, to choose.]

  2. Colleague

    kol′ēg, v.i. to join or unite: to conspire:—pr.p. colleaguing (kol-ēg′ing); pa.p. colleagued (kol-ēgd′). [From O. Fr. colliguer, to join in alliance—L. colligāre, to bind together.]

Editors Contribution

  1. colleague

    A person we work with.

    Our work colleague is getting married this year and we are all looking forward with joyful anticipation.


    Submitted by MaryC on April 11, 2020  

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British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'colleague' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3647

  2. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'colleague' in Nouns Frequency: #649

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of colleague in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of colleague in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of colleague in a Sentence

  1. Capitol Police:

    The entire USCP Department expresses its deepest sympathies to Officer Sicknick's family and friends on their loss, and mourns the loss of a friend and colleague.

  2. Teruko Nishiguchi:

    At the office, my Osaka (Kansai) colleague made fun of another colleague from Chiba (Kanto) who is bald, he joked, 'Where is your hair? So bald!' and that shocked the bald guy.

  3. Kathleen Goforth:

    My husband was an incredibly, intricate blend of toughness and gentility, he was who you wanted for a friend, a colleague and a neighbor. However, it was I who was blessed so richly that I had the privilege of calling him my husband and my best friend.

  4. Nick Faldo in the 1990s:

    My yardage books have always been produced with the aim of helping all players narrow down the exact length they want to hit a shot but this new greens contours book takes it to another level, for the past five years in America my business colleague Mark Long has produced both types of books for players on the U.S. Tour and Justin Rose and Graeme McDowell have persuaded me to see the potential demand of doing them for England Europe.

  5. Luis Gutierrez:

    It’s not easy to endorse a challenger over a colleague in the House of Representatives, especially when that colleague is a member of your party.

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