Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A man or boy.
- n. Informal A boyfriend.
- n. A comrade or associate.
- n. A person of equal rank, position, or background; a peer.
- n. One of a pair; a mate: found the lost shoe and its fellow.
- n. A member of a learned society.
- n. A graduate student appointed to a position granting financial aid and providing for further study.
- n. Chiefly British An incorporated senior member of certain colleges and universities.
- n. Chiefly British A member of the governing body of certain colleges and universities.
- n. Obsolete A person of a lower social class.
- adj. Being of the same kind, group, occupation, society, or locality; having in common certain characteristics or interests: fellow workers.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A companion; comrade; mate.
- n. One of the same kind; one of like character or qualities; an equal; a peer or compeer.
- n. One of a pair; one of two things mated or fitted to each other; a mate or match.
- n. A masculine mate: applied to beasts.
- n. In a particular sense, a boon companion; a pleasant, genial associate; a jovial comrade; a man of easy manners and lively disposition: often with the epithet good.
- n. A person in general; an individual: generally used in friendly familiarity of a man, and sometimes humorously of a woman.
- n. A man; a boy; one, in the sense of ‘a person’: in vulgar parlance, commonly applied by the speaker to himself: as, give a fellow a chance; don't be hard on a fellow.
- n. A person of trivial or disreputable character; a man of no esteem: said in contempt.
- n. In England, a graduate member of a college who shares its revenues. See fellowship, 5 . The transition from the scholar to the fellow is here [in the King's College statutes] first clearly defined. It is not until after a three years' probation, during which time it has been ascertained whether the scholar be ingenio, capacitate sensus, moribus, conditionibus, et scientia, dignus, habilis, et idoneus for further study, that the provost and the fellows are empowered to elect him one of their number.
Mullinger, Cambridge from the Earliest Times, p. 309. - n. A full member of an incorporated literary or scientific society.
- n. In the United States:
- n. One of the trustees or a member of the corporation of some colleges.
- n. The name sometimes given to the holder of a fellowship. [Used in composition, fellow denotes community in nature, station, interest, or employment, or mutual association on equal or friendly terms: as, fellow-boarder, fellow-clerk, fellow-guest, fellow-passenger, fellow-pilgrim, fellow-prisoner, fellow-servant, fellow-sinner, fellow-student, fellow-sufferer, fellow-townsman, fellow-traveler, fellow-worker. For other examples, see below.]
- To make one's fellow; companion with.
- To suit with; pair with; match.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete A colleague or partner.
- n. archaic A companion; a comrade.
- n. A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man.
- n. An equal in power, rank, character, etc.
- n. One of a pair, or of two things used together or suited to each other; a mate.
- n. colloquial A male person; a man.
- n. In the English universities, a scholar who is appointed to a foundation called a fellowship, which gives a title to certain perquisites and privileges.
- n. In an American college or university, a member of the corporation which manages its business interests; also, a graduate appointed to a fellowship, who receives the income of the foundation.
- n. A member of a literary or scientific society; as, a Fellow of the Royal Society.
- n. The most senior rank or title one can achieve on a technical career in certain companies (though some fellows also hold business titles such as vice president or chief technology officer). This is typically found in large corporations in research and development-intensive industries (IBM or Sun Microsystems in information technology, and Boston Scientific in Medical Devices for example). They appoint a small number of senior scientists and engineers as Fellows.
- n. In the US and Canada, a physician who is undergoing a supervised, sub-specialty medical training (fellowship) after completing a specialty training program (residency).
- adj. Having common characteristics; being of the same kind, or in the same group
- v. To suit with; to pair with; to match.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer.
- n. A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man.
- n. An equal in power, rank, character, etc.
- n. One of a pair, or of two things used together or suited to each other; a mate; the male.
- n. A person; an individual.
- n. In the English universities, a scholar who is appointed to a foundation called a
fellowship , which gives a title to certain perquisites and privileges. - n. In an American college or university, a member of the corporation which manages its business interests; also, a graduate appointed to a fellowship, who receives the income of the foundation.
- n. A member of a literary or scientific society.
- v. obsolete To suit with; to pair with; to match.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a friend who is frequently in the company of another
- n. one of a pair
- n. a person who is member of one's class or profession
- n. a member of a learned society
- n. an informal form of address for a man
- n. a boy or man
- n. a man who is the lover of a girl or young woman
Etymologies
- Old Norse fēlagi, from the Germanic bases of two words represented in English by fee and lay. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English felau, from Old English fēolaga, from Old Norse fēlagi, business partner, fellow, from fēlag, partnership : fē, property, money; + lag, a laying down. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“We all liked the captain, who was kind and considerate in his treatment of all hands; but it was fine fun for us to have "the old fellow" pressed -- "_old fellow_" of six or eight-and-twenty, as he was then.”
“If it is my brother-officer's lot to fall in battle -- it's very well -- I run the same hazard -- he dies, as he ought to do, a brave fellow; but to stand by, and see a man die as he ought not to do, and die what is called an _honest fellow_!”
“Not a single freakin 'fellow from the frontline GOP force has said anything significant about this level of care.”
“That McCain fellow is going to explode before election day, eh?”
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“But given the nature of these things, slots are limited (to keep the sessions intimate and to provide as much time as possible for each person's work) and intense competition to be named a fellow is the name of the game.”
“The Cowen fellow is an economist specializing in morality issues, and the other fellow is an anthropologist that deals with the nature of men.”
It’s wrong to pay for sex–NYC Debate April 21 « Bound, Not Gagged
“This fellow is the first I ever encounter doing this kind of recyling.”
Today at the range their was a fellow sifting the back stop sand to recover spent bullets.
“This fellow is almost as moronic as his counterpart reactionary in the Republican party, Ms. Palin, half governor of Alaska.”
Matthew Yglesias » Harold Ford Goes Negative . . . on Eleanor Roosevelt
“This fellow is a blithering idiot whose sense of entitlement has gotten his posterior in hot water.”
“Since you fancy yourself a skilled debater you take the stance that this fellow is a clown and that gays on campus deserve protection and I will argue that this clown is a wise man and that college need not consider the rights of their students regardless of sexual preference.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fellow’.
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POL - campaign tokenisms
Positive words and vague promises. THE words and expressions to use when you want to win over the masses or just don't know what to say.
"CAPITAL" stands for the administrative capital...21st century, a high level of a..., a long way, a long way to go, a lot to be done, a lot to do, achievement, action, action plan, action team, actual implementa..., advantage and 751 more...
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Nouns
an element, an aspect, a component, significant growth, transition, hiccups, labour, predecessor, delight, lawsuit, penchant, entrepreneurship and 23 more...
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Fellowship
A list where words can mingle with their fellows. Feel free to add any fellas and fellers.
fellow, fellowship, bedfellow, strange bedfellows, Robin Goodfellow, fellow-traveler, research fellow, Odd Fellows, Oddfellows, oddfellows, Oddfellows Hall, The Order of Patr... and 41 more...
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Viking Words
From http://www.vikingrune.com/2009/10/viking-words-in-english/
anger, birth, bleak, bloom, call, cast, crawl, crook, die, fellow, gear, get and 36 more...
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Twitter faves
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
niglets, aw, flakey, shiznit, thatch, sexy, bummers, hotty, eargasms, ratchetry, weird, fab and 457 more... -
The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Masonry
Due to my absolute ignorance of masonry and masonic terms, this list is shamelessly copied from this masonic dictionary.
Feel free to add words (as soon as I complete my transcription).abif, accepted, accord, active member, adjournment, admonish, adoration, adversity, affiliate, affirmation, lawful age, aid of deity and 143 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, F
felony, frolic, fend, fuselage, farthingale, freewheeling, frigorific, flummery, fancypants, felsitic, flagstone, flageolet and 295 more...
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Allographic Homophones
Words that can be pronounced identically but are spelled differently. I've started with unusual or extensive sets. In some of these sets, no one speaker would pronounce them all the same. I've trie...
air, are, ayr, ayre, e'er, ere, err, eyre, heir, apatite, appetite, picnic and 226 more...
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the_grene_kni3t's Words
acuarela, sesquipedalian, capital, métier, chap, cove, guv, guv'nor, ratiocination, transatlantique, ineffable, aural and 142 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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roseandivy's list
mooncalf, wonted, gibbet, artless, noontide, blithe, glitterati, vorpal, soporific, moxie, pilfer, betwixt and between and 263 more...
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Tunie: The Devil and the Feathery Wife
Recorded by Martin Carthy.
Now there was an old farmer lived over the hill
And a poor old fellow they say
He was plagued by a scolding wife
The worst misfortune that day<...demons, dwell, quail, damned, hiss, steam, navel, tea, feathers, barrel, stark naked, droppings and 27 more...
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Book of People
Nouns to denote types of people and their natures. Should be able to sum up a person in that one word.
cove, chap, gentleman, lady, lass, lad, flaneur, dude, pal, chum, homie, rudeboy and 41 more...
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Through Thick & Thin
sidekick, partner, buddy, ally, accessory, accomplice, cohort, collaborator, pal, mate, compadre, compatriot and 30 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for fellow.

ruzuzu "The name sometimes given to the holder of a fellowship. (Used in composition, fellow denotes community in nature, station, interest, or employment, or mutual association on equal or friendly terms: as, fellow-boarder, fellow-clerk, fellow-guest, fellow-passenger, fellow-pilgrim, fellow-prisoner, fellow-servant, fellow-sinner, fellow-student, fellow-sufferer, fellow-townsman, fellow-traveler, fellow-worker. For other examples, see below.)" --CD&C
Apr 13, 2012
bilby
You and I together—
Was it so?
In the August weather
Long ago!
Did we kiss and fellow,
Side by side,
Till the sunbeams quickened
From our stalks great yellow
Sunflowers, till we sickened
There and died?
- Richard Hovey, 'Launa Dee'. Sep 16, 2009