All 3 Uses of
colleague
in
Lucky, by Sebold
- My father is a tall man and I knew him best as a man obsessed with his work—with editing, writing, and speaking Spanish on the phone with colleagues and friends.†
Chpt 4colleagues = fellow workers -- especially in a respected profession such as teaching, medicine, or law
- My father does not have hobbies, wouldn't recognize a ball sport if the ball hit him in the head, and there are no cronies, there are only colleagues.†
Chpt 6 *
- It brought me all the way back to the preliminary hearing, the way his colleague, Meggesto, had savored the words "Calvin Klein jeans."†
Chpt 11
Definition:
fellow worker -- especially in a respected profession such as teaching, medicine, or law