colleague
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col·league
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Definition of colleague
: an associate or coworker typically in a profession or in a civil or ecclesiastical office and often of similar rank or state : a fellow worker or professional
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Other Words from colleague
colleagueship
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Synonyms for colleague
Synonyms
associate, confrere (also confrère), coworker
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Examples of colleague in a Sentence
Not since Cronkite's CBS mentor and colleague Edward R. Murrow lifted Senator Joe McCarthy by the skunk tail for public inspection had one TV broadcast reflected such a fateful climate change in public opinion.
— James Wolcott, Vanity Fair, June 2003
My colleague Gene Sperling and I were standing over my speakerphone, but for all Mario Cuomo knew we were on our knees.
— George Stephanopoulos, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 1999
Nineteenth-century naturalist Thomas Henry Huxley, a colleague of Charles Darwin, was the first to suggest that dinosaurs and birds were related.
— Laura Tangley, U.S. News & World Report, 6 July 1998
… it gets noticed no more than an hour later by another colleague of mine, whom I've never met personally but know to be an art historian …
— John Barth, Atlantic, March 1995
A colleague of mine will be speaking at the conference.
on her first day at work her colleagues went out of their way to make her feel welcome
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The caller, a former work colleague, said she was initially relieved that her mentally ill son had been arrested in April and was off the streets. — Phillip Morris, cleveland.com, "Cuyahoga County jail should have never become a prison: Phillip Morris," 1 Sep. 2019 Wells published a paper with a colleague in 1996 that documented the detracking efforts of 10 schools across the country over the course of three years. — Erin Einhorn, NBC News, "A fight over gifted education in New York is escalating a national debate over segregated schools," 31 Aug. 2019 Yet the photograph accompanying the review, of Ackerman and a colleague, shows that some things never change. — New York Times, "Jingoism, Political Agendas and Dangerous Driving," 30 Aug. 2019 He and a colleague finally published a paper last year. — Rebecca Asoulin, The Christian Science Monitor, "Wait, fish make noise? Meet the ‘fish listeners.’ (audio)," 29 Aug. 2019 Pierce moved his family of five to New Windsor in 1965 and, with a colleague, started his own company, Metropolitan Medical, that sold medical equipment. — Akira Kyles, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, "New Windsor mourns passing of Sam Pierce, former mayor and councilman," 28 Aug. 2019 Running to nearly 900 pages, this monumental work traces the wartime experiences of an extended family, the Shaposhnikovs, their spouses, lovers, friends, and colleagues, and figures from various spheres of Soviet life. — Sophie Pinkham, The New Republic, "Vasily Grossman’s Lost Epic," 27 Aug. 2019 Rahwan and Manuel Cebrian, a colleague from the MIT Media Lab, were sitting in Harvard Yard discussing how to best describe their preferred brand of multidisciplinary research. — Quanta Magazine, "The Anthropologist of Artificial Intelligence," 26 Aug. 2019 Brisson is well-regarded among colleagues as a diplomatic and decisive leader with an infectious laugh and big personality. — Ann Zaniewski, Detroit Free Press, "Gleaners CEO, has passion for helping the hungry | Shining Light Awards," 23 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'colleague.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for colleague
colleague
noun
English Language Learners Definition of colleague
somewhat formal
: a person who works with you : a fellow worker
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colleague
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col·league
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Kids Definition of colleague
: an associate in a profession : a fellow worker
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