collegial

1. 1.

   characterized by or having authority vested equally among colleagues

   “collegial harmony”

   “a tendency to turn from collegial to one-man management”
2. 2.

   of or resembling or typical of a college or college students

   “collegiate living”

   “collegiate attitudes”

   “collegiate clothes”

   Synonymscollegiate

Questions about collegial

What does collegial mean?

collegial means "characterized by or having authority vested equally among colleagues". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in collegial?

collegial has 4 syllables: col-le-gi-al. The stress falls on "le". In IPA it is /kəˈlidʒiəl/.

What is another word for collegial?

Close synonyms include collegiate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is collegial a common word?

collegial is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.