confrere:

(plural: ‘confreres‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘c’ is said with a ‘k’ sound as in “king”; the word opposite in meaning: ‘opponent’ or ‘enemy’)

[from the French language]

confreres

a friend or companion who shares a person’s  interests;

an associate in a person’s business;

a colleague in a person’s profession,

 

confreres

e.g.

Farhan was very much disappointed that he had not been able to help his confrere who was in the hospital fighting for his life.

When two teachers were suspended for some baseless allegations, the entire teaching and non-teaching staff quit their work and walked out of their classrooms in support of their confreres.

It is not uncommon to hear about people sacrificing everything have including their lives for their confreres.

For an item of blog news about the death of a confrere, please click here, and for an article that shows us how this word is used for colleagues of a profession, lawyers in this case, please click here. And for a news item about some priests visiting their confrere in jail, please click here.
For the right pronunciation of this word, please click here.

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