Definitions for colleague
ˈkɒl igcol·league

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. colleague, co-worker, fellow worker, workfellow(noun)

   an associate that one works with

2. colleague, confrere, fellow(noun)

   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(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. colleague(Noun)

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

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

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Colleague(noun)

   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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Colleague

   kol′ēg, n. one associated with others in some employment—not of partners in business.—n. Coll′eagueship. [Fr. collègue—L. collega—col, 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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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  

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

How to pronounce colleague?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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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. Charles Randolph:

   By humanizing Roger to some degree, you realize that the predator is not the guy sitting in his office twirling his mustache. It is the mentor who turns on you, the colleague, who on a business trip, turns on you.

2. Zhang Hui:

   I thought, 'this isn't right', and I told my colleague, 'I think we're in trouble'. After I said that, the ship flipped over. It only took 30 seconds or a minute.

3. Mahamdi Mande:

   I am unhappy because I lost my colleague and I am unhappy with the way the government is dealing with this.

4. Ruth Bader Ginsburg:

   Justice Scalia once described as the peak of his days on the bench an evening at the Opera Ball when he joined two Washington National Opera tenors at the piano for a medley of songs. He called it the famous Three Tenors performance, he was, indeed, a magnificent performer. It was my great good fortune to have known him as working colleague and treasured friend.

5. John Williams:

   I agree with the way my colleague Loretta Mester put it.

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