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Meaning of colleague | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2 Frequent
ˈkɒliːɡ

Definitions

  1. A fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate, a workmate.
  2. Colleague, coworker.
  3. A fellow member of a profession, staff, or academic faculty; an associate. See Synonyms at partner.
  4. an associate; fellow worker or fellow member of a profession.
  5. a person with whom one is associated in a profession or occupation. He gets on well with his colleagues. medeamptenaar زَميل في العَمَل колега colega kolega der/die Kollege/Kollegin kollega συνάδελφοςcolega töökaaslane همکار kollega collègueעמית सहकर्मी kolega kolléga rekan samstarfsmaður collega 同僚 동료 kolega kolēģis rakan sekerja collegakollega, medarbeiderkolega, współpracownik همکار colega coleg коллега kolega, -yňa kolega kolega kollega เพื่อนร่วมงาน meslektaş 同事 співробітник, колега رفیق...
  6. colega; compañero-a.
  7. a fellow worker or member of a staff, department, profession, etc
  8. One that is very similar to another in rank or position:coequal, compeer, equal, equivalent, fellow, peer.
  9. One who is united in a relationship with another:affiliate, ally, associate, cohort, confederate, copartner, fellow, partner.
  10. n → Kollege m, → Kollegin f; my colleagues at work → meine Arbeitskollegen
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Equivalents

Беларуская кале́га супрацоўнік
Български колега колежка
বাংলা সহকর্মী
Català col·lega company
Čeština kolega kolegyně
Ελληνικά συνάδελφος
Español Colega compañero
Eesti kolleeg
עברית עָמִית
हिन्दी सहकर्मी साथी
Italiano collega
日本語 同僚 同業者
Қазақша әріптес
한국어 동료 동업자
Кыргызча кесиптеш
Latina collega
Lietuvių kolega
Македонски колега колешка
မြန်မာဘာသာ လုပ်ဖော်ကိုင်ဖက်
Nederlands collega medewerker
Português colega
Română coleg colegă
Slovenčina kolega kolegyňa
Shqip koleg kolege
Српски kolega kolege колега
తెలుగు సహోద్యోగి
Тоҷикӣ ҳамкор
اردو ساتھی
Tiếng Việt đồng nghiệp

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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