All 5 Uses of
colleague
in
The History of Love
- But what Eldridge and his colleagues observed in the headlights of their submersible were hundreds of organisms never before seen by human eyes—a whole ecosystem that they realized was very, very old.†
colleagues = fellow workers -- especially in a respected profession such as teaching, medicine, or law
- A few of his colleagues also complimented him.
*colleagues = fellow workers
- We've been colleagues for years, and she happens to be someone who cares about the things I care about.†
colleagues = fellow workers -- especially in a respected profession such as teaching, medicine, or law
- He thought of his colleagues at the daily, which reminded him of his desk with the divots in the wood he used to finger to help him think, which reminded him of his typewriter with the sticky S so that his copy always had sentences like hisss death leavesss a hole in the livesss of thossse he helped, which reminded him of the smell of his boss's cheap cigars, which reminded him of his promotion from stringer to obituary writer, which reminded him of Isaac Babel, which was as far as he allowed himself to get before he stopped his longing in its tracks and hurried away down the street.†
- Well, Flo is a colleague of mine at the Courtauld.†
Definition:
fellow worker -- especially in a respected profession such as teaching, medicine, or law