Colleague

Definition: Colleague

Colleague

Noun

1. An associate you work with.

2. A person who is member of your class or profession; "the surgeon consulted his colleagues"; "he sent e-mail to his fellow hackers".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "colleague" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Colleague

Accompaniment

Concomitant, accessory, coefficient; companion, buddy, attendant, fellow, associate, friend, colleague; consort, spouse, mate; partner, co-partner; satellite, hanger on, fellow-traveller, shadow; escort, cortege; attribute.

Auxiliary

Noun: auxiliary; recruit; assistant; adjuvant, adjutant; ayudante, coaid; adjunct; help, helper, help mate, helping hand; midwife; colleague, partner, mate, confrere, cooperator; coadjutor, coadjutrix; collaborator.

Friend

Associate, colleague, compeer.

Crosswords: Colleague

Some years ago, a colleague of mine on a simple job, rather like this one, decided he was going to have a little bit of fun. During the course of that 'little bit of fun,' the opposition came in and destroyed them both (The Equalizer; writing credit: Grenville Casey; Loraine Despres)

I wish to ask my distinguished colleague, has he one scrap of evidence to add now to the defense he did not give and could not give at that same hearing (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; writing credit: Sidney Buchman)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Aribert Munzner : Teacher, Colleague, Artist (reference)

• Classroom Behaviour: A Practical Guide to Teaching, Behaviour Management and Colleague Support (reference)

• Dear Colleague (reference)

• Dirk Philips: Friend and Colleague of Menno Simons (reference)

• Inventing a Ministry: Four Reflections on the Life of a Colleague, Charles Vickery, 1920-1972 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Colleague (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• My Only Colleague (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Dr. Francis P. Shepard, the "father of marine geology," discussing scientific findings of the International Indian Ocean Expedition with a Ceylonese colleague at a meeting hosted by the Ceylon Association for the Advancement of Science. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

In California's Salinas Valley, where much of America's lettuce is produced, ARS researcher Edward Ryder and colleague William Waycott, scrutinize an exceptional array of unique lettuces. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Patrick Tregenza..

[Lillian Kozuma with colleague in the rotunda]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Delegating her job to a colleague at the perfumes --. Credit: Library of Congress.

Red Smith reading ticker tape in sports department of the Herald Tribune, with colleague next to him. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Economic History

Samoa

Malietoa Tanumafili II has held this post alone since the death of his colleague in 1963. His eventual successor will be selected by the legislature for a 5-year term. (references)

Human Rights

Guatemala

In November Ford's colleague, Sister Virginia Searing, became a plaintiff in the case. (references)

Djibouti

He and his colleague, Djama Amareh Meidal, had been disbarred for alleged irregularities in their representation of a client in a 1994 commercial dispute. (references)

Indigenous People

Honduras

Another group of Lencas staged a protest outside the Supreme Court to press for the release of a jailed colleague. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "colleague": back a colleague. Additional references.

Beginning with "colleague": colleague-like.

Ending with "colleague": ex-colleague.

Afrikaans

kollega, ampsbroer, ampgenoot (college). (various references)

Albanian

shok pune (yokefellow, yokemate), koleg (associate). (various references)

Arabic 

‏زميل في العمل (fellow worker), ‏الرصيف. (various references)

Bulgarian 

колега (associate, compatriot, fellow, fellow worker, friend, mate). (various references)

Chinese 

同事 (co-worker). (various references)

Czech

kolega (brother, co-worker, mate, pal). (various references)

Danish

kollega. (various references)

Dutch

collega, ambtgenoot (counter part, opposite colleague, opposite number). (various references)

Esperanto

samprofesiano, kolego. (various references)

Faeroese

starvsbróðir, lagsbróðir (buddy, companion, comrade, pal). (various references)

Farsi 

هم کار, هم قطار. (various references)

Finnish

virkaveli (fellow), virkatoveri, kollega, ammattitoveri. (various references)

French

collègue. (various references)

Frisian

kollega, amtgenoat. (various references)

German

kollege (adjunct, associate, brother, co-worker, fellow, workmate), mitarbeiter (adjunct, assistant, assistants, associate, collaborator, contributor, cooperator, co-worker, employee, manpower, monitor), Amtsbruder. (various references)

Greek 

συνάδελφοσ, συνάδελφος (fellow). (various references)

Hebrew 

עמית (associate, companion, counterpart, fellow, friend, mate), חבר לעבודה. (various references)

Hungarian

munkatárs (associate, cobber, collaborator, contributor, co-worker, fellow worker, joint labourer, team mate, yoke fellow, yoke-fellow, yokemate), kolléga (compeer, stable companion). (various references)

Indonesian

sejawat (counterpart), pendamping (associate, company). (various references)

Italian

collegio (board, boarding school, college, school), collega (associate, college). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

同輩 (comrade, fellows, one's equal), 同僚 (associate, coworker), 僚友 (comrade, coworker, workmate). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なかま (associate, circle of friends, company, comrade, fellow, group, mate, partner), しゃゆう (company friend), どうにん (clique, comrade, fraternity, kindred spirits, literary group, said person, same person), どうりょう (associate, companion, coworker, momentum, same amount), どうやく, どうじん (clique, comrade, fraternity, kindred spirits, literary group, said person, same person, universal benevolence), どうはい (bronze or copper medal, comrade, fellows, one's equal), ほうばい (associate, companion, comrade, fellow student or apprentice, friend), りょうゆう (comrade, coworker, good friend, possession, two great men, workmate), あいやく. (various references)

Korean 

동료 (Associate, Fellow, Fellows, mate, mates, peer). (various references)

Manx

sheshey (cohort, companion, consort, fellow, husband, match, mate, partner, spouse), co-obbree (collaborator). (various references)

Papiamen

kolega. (various references)

Pig Latin

olleaguecay.(various references)

Portuguese

colega (classmate, companion, dick, fellow, friend, mate, playmate). (various references)

Romanian

coleg (fellow, friend, mate). (various references)

Russian 

сослуживец, коллега (confrere). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kolega (associate, fellow, fellow worker). (various references)

Spanish

colega (associate, brother), compañero (associate, brother, buddy, chum, companion, compeer, Comrade, fellow, friend at court, mate, pal, partner, schoolfellow, sidekick, stooge). (various references)

Swedish

kollega (associate, cohort, collegue, fellow). (various references)

Turkish

meslektaş (confrere, counterpart, co-worker, yoke mate), meslekdax, iş arkadaşı (collaborator, cooperator, co-worker, workfellow, yokefellow, yokemate). (various references)

Turkmen 

kдrdeю, iюger, iюgдr, iюdes. (various references)

Ukrainian

співробітник (collaborator, contributor, cooperator, workmate), колега (affiliate, associate, friend). (various references)

Vietnamese 

bạn đồng sự, bạn đồng nghiệp. (various references)

collega, collegam, contubernium. (various references)

consort. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "colleague": colleagues, colleagueship, colleagueships. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Colleague" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: coleage, coleagu, coleague, coleegue, collaegue, collague, collauge, colleagaue, colleage, colleaque, colleauge, collegaue, collegie, collegue, colleige, Collenage, colleuage, colleugue, colligue, colllague, Holleaux. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: collage, college, eclogue.

-3 letters: allege, cellae, coulee, league, locale, locule, ullage.

-4 letters: aglee, allee, cella, cello, eagle, glace, guaco, legal, local.

-5 letters: agee, ague, alec, alee, aloe, cage, call, calo, caul, cell, clag, clog, clue, coal, cola, cole, cull, egal, gale, gall, gaol, glee, glue, goal, gull, lace, leal, loca, loge, luce, luge, ogee.

+1 letter: colleagues.

+4 letters: colleagueship, subcollegiate.

+5 letters: camouflageable, colleagueships, eugeosynclinal, neurogenically.