noun
Meaning 1
A colleague or fellow, especially a professional one.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
confrere
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
-
CMU ARPABET: K AA1 N F R EH0 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A fellow member of a religious organization, referring especially to Catholic religious orders of men.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a person who is member of one's class or profession
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the surgeon consulted his colleagues
- he sent e-mail to his fellow hackers
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: colleague, fellow
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: associate
History
Etymology
From Old French confrere, from Latin confrāter. The word which was originally only used for the second sense became obsolete in the 17th century and reappeared in the mid 18th century as a re-borrowing of Modern French confrère whence the first sense is from.