Synonyms of the word

confrere

• n. a colleague or fellow, especially a professional one.

associate

• adj. Joined with another or others and having equal or nearly equal status.
• adj. Having partial status or privileges.
• adj. Following or accompanying; concomitant.
• adj. (biology, dated) Connected by habit or sympathy.
• n. A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner.
• n. Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague.
• n. A companion; a comrade.
• n. One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
• n. A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
• v. (intransitive) To join in or form a league, union, or association.
• v. (intransitive) To spend time socially; keep company.
• v. (transitive) To join as a partner, ally, or friend.
• v. (transitive) To connect or join together; combine.
• v. (transitive) To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.
• v. (reflexive, in deliberative bodies) To endorse.
• v. (mathematics) To be associative.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To accompany; to be in the company of.

colleague

• n. A fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate.
• v. To unite or associate with another or with others.

fellow

• n. (obsolete) A colleague or partner.
• n. (archaic) A companion; a comrade.
• n. A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man.
• n. An equal in power, rank, character, etc.
• n. One of a pair, or of two things used together or suited to each other; a mate.
• n. (colloquial) A male person; a man.
• n. (rare) A person; an individual, male or female.
• n. (heading) A rank or title in the professional world, usually given as "Fellow".
• adj. Having common characteristics; being of the same kind, or in the same group.
• v. To suit with; to pair with; to match.