colleague

== English == === Etymology === From Middle French collegue, from Latin collēga (“a partner in office”), from com- (“with”) + lēgō (“to send on an embassy”), from lēx (“law”). === Pronunciation === enPR: kôl′ēg, Rhymes: -iːɡ Hyphenation: col‧league (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɒliːɡ/ (Canada, US) IPA(key): /ˈkɑliɡ/ (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈkɔliːɡ/ (South Asia, Malaysia, Singapore) enPR: kə-lēg′, IPA(key): /kəˈliɡ/ (Hong Kong) enPR: kôlēg′, IPA(key): /kɔˈliːɡ/ === Noun === colleague (plural colleagues) A fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate, a workmate. ==== Usage notes ==== Not to be confused with college (which is a distant cognate, from Latin), and collage. ==== Synonyms ==== coworker workmate confrère See also Thesaurus:associate ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== collegial collegiate ==== Translations ==== === Verb === colleague (third-person singular simple present colleagues, present participle colleaguing, simple past and past participle colleagued) (transitive) 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 reading === “colleague”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “colleague”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.