Colleague vs Lover - What's the difference?
colleague | lover |
A fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate.
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, title= To unite or associate with another or with others.
One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, or girlfriend.
* Shakespeare
A sexual partner.
A person who loves something.
As nouns the difference between colleague and lover
is that colleague is a fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate while lover is one who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, or girlfriend.As a verb colleague
is to unite or associate with another or with others.colleague
English
Noun
(wikipedia colleague) (en noun)A punch in the gut, passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial.
Synonyms
* coworker * workmate * See alsoSee also
Do not confuse with: * college * collageVerb
(colleagu)- Young Fortinbras,/ Holding a weak supposal of our worth/...Colleagued with the dream of his advantage,/...hath not failed to pester us with message/ Importing the surrender of those lands/Lost by his father.'' - ''Hamlet (Act I, Scene 2)
External links
* *lover
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Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal or obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Love is blind, and lovers cannot see / The pretty follies that themselves commit.
- a lover of fine wines
- a lover of his country
- All right, me lover?