colleague

Academic Word List, sublist 10.

About 5.25 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate, a workmate.
2. verb 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)

Similar words

confrere workfellow co-worker fellow fellow worker coworker collaborator associate member teammate

Often followed by

of in and who at to from was on

Word family

colleagues colleagueship colleagueships