confrere
1
9.3
- noun
- /kɒnˈfrɛr/
- Formal
:
colega
- The scientist discussed his research findings with his confrere, who also works in the same field.
Examples
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Friends, godparents, distant relatives, village people, and political confreres were treated as intimate relatives.
Academic text (1993) -
A cute choirboy in a frilly white collar was solemnly lighting the candles, and there was a rustling in the choir stalls as his confreres took their places.
Fiction book (1995) -
I'm sorry to be so melodramatic, my confrere.
Fiction book (2001) -
It tells our confreres not to waste energy coming to his rescue.
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I must go, or my confreres will think I've run off with the takings.
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He'd been able to sell my unorthodox style to his confreres for one reason: it had worked before.
Fiction book (1995) -
Some years ago, I was standing at the baggage claim in NY with one of your confreres.
Blog text (16) -
For Noailles, as well as his episcopal confreres, theology was too serious a matter to be left to theologians.
Academic text (1992) -
Gattuso claimed that his confreres had never taken proper salaries at either of their parishes and that he was only able to give his Superior General $100 for his Roman Province of the Mercedarians in June 1938.
Academic text (1998) -
By doing so, Johannes of Mainz consciously created a new category of Dominicans and clearly demarcated Observants from their non-reformed confreres.
Academic text (2018)
Synonyms
892
2.3
A person you work with at the same job or company
179
1.0
A person in the same class at school or university
98
1.9
A person in the same group or profession as you
7
2.0
A person who works with you in the same company or team
6
2.7
A person who belongs to the same group or club as another
2
2.2
A person who has a job at the same office or company as you
A person who studies with you in the same class
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Etymology
Confrere comes from the Latin parts con- 'with' and frater 'brother', so it originally meant someone who is 'with a brother' in the same group. Today, a confrere is simply a colleague or fellow professional.