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Meaning of "colleague" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD COLLEAGUE

From French collègue, from Latin collēga one selected at the same time as another, from com- together + lēgāre to choose.
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PRONUNCIATION OF COLLEAGUE

colleague  [ˈkɒliːɡ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COLLEAGUE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Colleague is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COLLEAGUE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Collegiality

Ancient Rome portal v t e This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Collegiality is the relationship between colleagues. Colleagues are those explicitly united in a common purpose and respecting each other's abilities to work toward that purpose. A colleague is an associate in a profession or in a civil or ecclesiastical office. Thus, the word collegiality can connote respect for another's commitment to the common purpose and ability to work toward it. In a narrower sense, members of the faculty of a university or college are each other's colleagues; very often the word is taken to mean that. Sometimes colleague is taken to mean a fellow member of the same profession. The word college is sometimes used in a broad sense to mean a group of colleagues united in a common purpose, and used in proper names, such as Electoral College, College of Cardinals, College of Pontiffs.

Definition of colleague in the English dictionary

The definition of colleague in the dictionary is a fellow worker or member of a staff, department, profession, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COLLEAGUE


antifatigue
ˌæntɪfəˈtiːɡ
blitzkrieg
ˈblɪtsˌkriːɡ
brigue
briːɡ
bush-league
ˈbʊʃˌliːɡ
fatigue
fəˈtiːɡ
feague
fiːɡ
gigue
ʒiːɡ
Grieg
ɡriːɡ
intrigue
ɪnˈtriːɡ
Ivy-League
ˈaɪvɪ liːɡ
league
liːɡ
non-league
ˌnɒnˈliːɡ
overfatigue
ˌəʊvəfəˈtiːɡ
peag
piːɡ
peage
piːɡ
reneague
rɪˈniːɡ
renege
rɪˈniːɡ
sitzkrieg
ˈsɪtsˌkriːɡ
squeteague
skwɪˈtiːɡ
treague
triːɡ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COLLEAGUE

collator
colleagueship
collect
collect call
collect on delivery
collectable
collectanea
collected
collected works
collectedly
collectedness
collectible
collecting
collecting bank
collecting box
collecting tin
collection
collection box
collection charges
collection plate

WORDS THAT END LIKE COLLEAGUE

Achaean League
Anti-Corn Law League
Anti-Corn-Law League
Arab League
Delian League
football league
Hanseatic League
house league
in league
Ivy League
Junior League
Little League
major league
minor league
National League
Prague
Premier League
rugby league
the Ivy League
Urban League

Synonyms and antonyms of colleague in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «COLLEAGUE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «colleague» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of colleague

Translation of «colleague» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COLLEAGUE

Find out the translation of colleague to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of colleague from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «colleague» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

同事
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

colega
570 millions of speakers

English

colleague
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सहयोगी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

زَمِيل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

коллега
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

colega
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সহকর্মী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

collègue
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Rakan sekerja
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kollege
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

同僚
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

동료
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Colleague
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đồng nghiệp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சக
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सहकारी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çalışma arkadaşı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

collega
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kolega
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

колега
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

coleg
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συνάδελφος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kollega
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kollega
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kollega
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of colleague

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COLLEAGUE»

The term «colleague» is very widely used and occupies the 14.617 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COLLEAGUE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «colleague» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «colleague» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about colleague

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10 QUOTES WITH «COLLEAGUE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word colleague.
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Abdallah II of Jordan
And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that.
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Hans Blix
They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon.
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Donna Brazile
I have a simple rule: when I'm on TV, I'm not talking to just my anchor or my colleague on my right. I'm talking to America. I look into the lens, and in my head, I'm talking to somebody in Nebraska. Why Nebraska? Why the Cornhusker State? I have no idea. But it feels like it's a good place to talk to people.
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Dennis Cardoza
Like my colleague, I represent a large Assyrian community in central California, one of the largest concentrations of Assyrian Americans anywhere in the United States.
5
Alan Clark
There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.
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Susan Collins
Well, first let me say that I think health care reform is important. It has to be a priority. And our system is broken. The Finance Committee bill is the best effort yet, due in large measure to the efforts of my colleague, Olympia Snowe, but it's not there yet. It falls short.
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Michael Gove
Teachers themselves know if there's a colleague who can't keep control or keep the interest of their class, it affects the whole school.
8
Marcy Kaptur
Nothing is more unappealing than running against a colleague.
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Arthur Laffer
What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.
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Sendhil Mullainathan
Our outrage at inequality is primal. But primal emotions are not always noble ones. Of course, when I see a colleague receive some award, I covet it. But this is not me at my best, and these are not the feelings we would instill and promote in our children.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COLLEAGUE»

Discover the use of colleague in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to colleague and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Ask a Colleague: Expert Nurses Answer More Than 1,000 ...
These are not simply knowledge questions but questions that require critical thinking; questions that nurses often struggle to answer correctly; questions nurses would like to consult with their peers to determine the correct answer but in ...
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005
2
Dear Colleague: Common and Uncommon Observations
"Eminent geographer Yi-Fu Tuan's letters to his friends and colleagues - distilling observations, ideas, and experiences - have carried Tuan's insights, and his reputation, far beyond his chosen field.
Yi-fu Tuan, 2002
3
Classroom Behaviour: A Practical Guide to Effective ...
Lecturers, why waste time waiting for the post to arrive? Request and receive your e-inspection copy today! In this Third Edition of his bestselling book, Bill Rogers looks at the issues facing teachers working in today's classrooms.
Bill Rogers, 2011
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I Get By With A Little Help...: Colleague Support in Schools
This book highlights the personal and relational aspects of colleague support, and uses the voices of teachers and case studies to illustrate the moral, structural, and professional dimensions.
Bill Rogers, 2006
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Inventing a Ministry: Four Reflections on the Life of a ...
Candid sketch of the extraordinary life of Charles Vickery (1920-1972), UU minister and UU Service Committee worker.
Carl Seaburg, 1992
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Ethics in Psychology and the Mental Health Professions : ...
Case 2–17: A colleague confided to us that she once knew that a therapist in her office complex had become sexually involved with several female clients on a regular basis. She would see her colleague and various clients together, outside of ...
Gerald P. Koocher Dean of the Graduate School of Health Studies Simmons College, Patricia Keith-Spiegel Voran Honors Distinguished Professor (Emerita) of Social and Behavioral Sciences Ball State University, 2007
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My Dear Friend and Colleague, the Stethoscope
Based on a true story of one's life's journey, this book is an attempt to describe a 'life well spent'. But was it really a life well spent? Was the element called Time fair to us? Or was it even worth the journey?
Samuel T. Esbee, 2004
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Ofcom: the effectiveness of converged regulation, twentieth ...
... Type Colleague Colleague Colleague Colleague Colleague Colleague Colleague Colleague Colleague Colleague Colleague Colleague Colleague Colleague Colleague Colleague Colleague Colleague Colleague Colleague Colleague ...
Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts, 2011
9
Ethical Practice in Grief Counseling
when there is an ethical obligation to confront or report a colleague, as well as what to do when a charge of misconduct or an ethical complaint is filed against the grief counselor. REPORTING A COLLEAGUE Applying the Five P Model for ...
Louis A. Gamino PhD, ABPP, FT, R. Hal Ritter Jr., PhD, LPC, LMFT, 2009
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Design Patterns Formalization Techniques
Class Diagram of the Mediator pattern * mboxes mediator Mailbox <> Mediator message connect(colleague) ' disconnect(colleague) put(colleague, colleague, message) L} Concrete-Colleaguel Concrete-ColleagueZ get(colleague) l l l coll T  ...
Toufik Taibi, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COLLEAGUE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term colleague is used in the context of the following news items.
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Six bank employees sacked after staging ISIS mock execution on …
The Sun newspaper reported yesterday the footage posted online showed five workers wearing overalls and balaclavas laughing as a South Asian colleague ... «TVNZ, Jul 15»
2
Veteran New York Police sergeant accused of throwing semen at …
A veteran New York Police Department sergeant is being investigated after he allegedly splashed his civilian colleague with his own semen as ... «International Business Times UK, Jul 15»
3
'My male colleague just landed a much larger bonus than me. What …
There may be part of you that wishes your colleague had never spilled the beans on his bonus. You were happy in your role before this ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
4
Stan Carew remembered by former colleague Costas Halavrezos
Years ago, I came across a phrase that describes people whose work requires them to be "on" with the public, even though this isn't a natural ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
5
How to Dish Out Criticism to a Colleague Without Burning a Bridge
These words of wisdom should definitely be practiced when you're providing constructive criticism to a colleague, because nothing good can ... «PayScale Career News, Jul 15»
6
Former Fonterra boss an 'inspiring' colleague
Fonterra's first chief executive Craig Norgate, a man business colleagues describe as a visionary, has died at the age of 50 in Britain. «Radio New Zealand, Jul 15»
7
Fidel Castro Praises 'Esteemed Colleague' Greek Prime Minister …
In a letter dated 5 July but published on the front pages of Cuban state newspapers today, Fidel Castro praises his “esteemed colleague” ... «Breitbart News, Jul 15»
8
My colleague may misinterpret our causal sex
Question: My female colleague, who is a very good friend of mine, told me she has a crush on me. However, I ignored since I do not wish to be ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
9
John Hinds: Bikers join road racing doctor's family in cortege convoy …
Dr Hinds' partner Janet and his colleague Dr Fred MacSorley lead the cortege joined by hundreds of bikers. Pic: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker. «Belfast Telegraph, Jul 15»
10
Sailors win barge race in memory of former colleague
TWO sailors from north Kent were among a team who won a race on the Thames on Saturday in memory of a former colleague. Mark Towens ... «Gravesend Reporter, Jul 15»

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