collègue
French, noun/kɔ.lɛɡ/
collègue is a French feminine noun meaning “colleague” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne qui exerce la même profession ou qui travaille dans la même organisation qu’une autre”.
What does collègue mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemasculinecolleague
- 2
colloquialfemininemasculinefriend
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Personne qui exerce la même profession ou qui travaille dans la même organisation qu’une autre. 2. Personne qui exerce une fonction rémunérée par l’État, par rapport à ceux qui exercent cette même fonction. 3. Camarade, copain ou compagnon.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of collègue
- collègues plural
- collégue obsolete
- collegue archaic
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce collègue?
- /kɔ.lɛɡ/
- \kɔ.lɛɡ\
- \ko.lɛg\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to collègue
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is collègue in French?
collègue appears 20 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).