A colleague or fellow, especially a professional one.
Used in a Sentence
confreres
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for confreres.
Editorial note
They weren’t even particularly notable dealings as he comes off seeming relatively reasonable compared to many of his confreres.
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Quick take
A colleague or fellow, especially a professional one.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of confreres gathered in one view.
A fellow member of a religious organization, referring especially to Catholic religious orders of men.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for confreres.
noun
A colleague or fellow, especially a professional one.
noun
A fellow member of a religious organization, referring especially to Catholic religious orders of men.
Example sentences
They weren’t even particularly notable dealings as he comes off seeming relatively reasonable compared to many of his confreres.
Is anyone else bemused by going in to work, to do zoom calls with your confreres who didn't come in?
I have been urging my confreres to use basecamp and actively looking for other collaborative tools.
I don't think my confreres in power appreciate how strongly they are speaking to the past, rather than the future.
I envy my confreres who get to travel with burner laptops.
It would seem that Freud and his confreres designed psychotherapy to supplant and replace the Sacrament of Penance in the Catholic Church, which had been lost to Protestants, over 300 years since the Reformation swept Germany and the rest of Europe.
So Aquinas' own confreres wouldn't be shy about describing his stoutness and ability to devour geese twice a year, and it wasn't for nothing that an army came later to massacre the adversaries and quell the heresy from spreading for a few hundred years.
Lone wolves who genuinely had no contact with their confreres, such as Ted Kaczynski, are vanishingly rare exceptions among the dozens of thousands of terrorist attacks in the 20th century, and as rare exceptions, otherwise implausible explanations like mental disease account for them without trouble.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use confreres in a sentence?
They weren’t even particularly notable dealings as he comes off seeming relatively reasonable compared to many of his confreres.
What does confreres mean?
A colleague or fellow, especially a professional one.
What part of speech is confreres?
confreres is commonly used as noun.