colleagueとは

発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑliːɡ/

名詞

colleague (複数形 colleagues)

1. A fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate.
   • 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 72-3:

     Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. […] Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism. Dr Yoshimoto and his colleagues would like to add liver cancer to that list.

同意語

• coworker
• workmate
• See also Thesaurus:associate

関連する語

• collegial
• collegiate

参考

Do not confuse with:

• college (distant cognate, from Latin)
• collage

動詞

colleague (三人称単数 現在形 colleagues, 現在分詞 colleaguing, 過去形および過去分詞形 colleagued)

1. 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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• colleague in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911