Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fellow member of a fraternity or profession; a colleague.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A colleague; a fellow-member; an associate in something.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Fellow member of a fraternity; intimate associate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
colleague orfellow , especially aprofessional one
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who is member of one's class or profession
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The President of Carleton University, we remember best as the youthful Chairman of the CBC, but prior to that, Mr. Dunton had studied at McGill and Cambridge while his confrere was attending the University of Montreal and the Sorbonne.
The Work of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism 1964
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The doctor looked after him with a queer expression in his eyes and then called his confrere to the pallet.
Jane Cable George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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"Well, to resume, what shall I tell you, young 'confrere'?"
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"Does he imagine, the young 'confrere', that I am going to believe his time so fully occupied that he must make a special arrangement to give me an hour?"
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Decidedly, he understood life, the young 'confrere'; he might be called in consultation with his heavy appearance and careless toilet, there was no danger of rivalry.
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Before a 'confrere' she was certain he would not ask her dangerous questions.
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He did not lose himself in idle words, the young 'confrere', any more than in useless details.
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Some of them walked alone, briskly, in a great hurry; others demonstrated a skilful tardiness, stopping to talk politely to a journalist, and to give him notes of the day's meeting, or continuing, with a 'confrere' who was not an Academician, the conversation begun in the room of the 'pas-perdus'; it was the Bourse of consultations that was just closed.
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Although Balzajette read only a morning paper, and never opened a book, he had heard of Saniel's reputation, and because he was young he thought he might manage this 'confrere', who seemed destined to make a good position.
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Before a 'confrere' she was certain he would not ask her dangerous questions.
Conscience — Complete Hector Malot 1868
damoiseau commented on the word confrere
as a French teacher, I use 'confrere' as a frequent substitute for 'classmate' in grade comments.
September 26, 2011