Definitions for confreres

confreres con·frere

Spelling: [kon-frair]
IPA: /ˈkɒn frɛər/

Confreres is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 280 anagrams from letters in confreres (ceefnorrs).

Definitions for confreres

noun

  1. a fellow member of a fraternity, profession, etc.; colleague:

Origin of confreres

1425-75; late Middle English Middle French Medieval Latin confrāter colleague, equivalent to Latin con- con- + frāter brother

Examples for confreres

Dr Revault, confrere of Guyot, regretted the failure to perform a post-mortem on the body of Perrotte.

Before a 'confrere' she was certain he would not ask her dangerous questions.

Our confrere Ruhlmann, of the Elektrotechnische Zeitschrift, gives a still more remarkable example yet of such confusion.

The cadaverous one jotted down something in a pocket-book, and exchanged a few words with his confrere.

His confrere, who had preceded him here, sat enviously at one of the minor tables.

When Perrotte died he and M. Revault, his confrere, thought the cause of death would be seen as poison in an autopsy.

Some one has warned him—an enemy of the Countess, a confrere of Maitland.

It was only when the supercargo was planning some especial piece of villainy that he addressed his confrere by his Christian name.

It is also written to uphold the reputation of the Western conjuror against the spurious ascendancy held by his Eastern confrere.

It was a magnificent specimen, and exactly like its European confrere.

Word Value for confreres
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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