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A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg confrere PRONUNCIATION: (KON-frayr) MEANING: noun: Colleague; a fellow member of a profession, fraternity, etc. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin con- (with) + frater (brother). Other cousins of this word, derived from the same Indo-European root bhrater- (brother), are brother, pal, fraternal, and bully. Earliest documented use: 1425. USAGE: "Dr. Madan Kataria developed a catalog of comical expressions and sounds that he and his confreres used to stimulate and simulate laughter." Eric Trump; Got the Giggles? Join the Club; The New York Times; Jul 27, 2002. Explore "confrere" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: We all travel the milky way together, trees and men; but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while swinging in the wind, that trees are travelers in the ordinary sense. They make many journeys, not extensive ones, it is true; but our own little journeys, away and back again, are only little more than tree-wavings -- many of them not so much. -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914)
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