colleagues
- 1Plural of colleague.
She presented the new findings to her colleagues at the weekly meeting.
Several colleagues volunteered to cover his shifts while he recovered.
Note
A regular plural, formed with -s and nothing more: one colleague, several colleagues. The word reaches beyond a shared office. A fellow member of a profession, a staff, an academic faculty or any organization counts, so colleagues can share a field without sharing a workplace. The same spelling also serves the verb form meaning "unites or associates", and the surrounding sentence tells them apart.
colleagues is a form of colleague
colleague, noun: A fellow member of one's profession, staff, faculty, or organization; an associate or workmate. Full entry
- Forms
- colleaguecolleagues plural
- Spelling
- colleague → colleagues: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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