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fellow
[ fel-oh ]
noun
- a man or boy:
a fine old fellow; a nice little fellow.
- Informal. beau; suitor:
Mary had her fellow over to meet her folks.
- Informal. person; one:
They don't treat a fellow very well here.
- a person of small worth or no esteem.
- a companion; comrade; associate:
They have been fellows since childhood.
- a person belonging to the same rank or class; equal; peer:
The doctor conferred with his fellows.
- one of a pair; mate; match:
a shoe without its fellow.
- Education.
- a graduate student of a university or college to whom an allowance is granted for special study.
- British. an incorporated member of a college, entitled to certain privileges.
- a member of the corporation or board of trustees of certain universities or colleges.
- a member of any of certain learned societies:
a fellow of the British Academy.
- Obsolete. a partner.
verb (used with object)
- to make or represent as equal with another.
- Archaic. to produce a fellow to; match.
adjective
- belonging to the same class or group; united by the same occupation, interests, etc.; being in the same condition:
fellow students; fellow sufferers.
Fellow
1/ ˈɛəʊ /
noun
- a member of any of various learned societies
Fellow of the British Academy
fellow
2/ ˈɛəʊ /
noun
- a man or boy
- an informal word for boyfriend
- informal.one or oneself
a fellow has to eat
- a person considered to be of little importance or worth
- often plural a companion; comrade; associate
- ( as modifier )
fellow travellers
- (at Oxford and Cambridge universities) a member of the governing body of a college, who is usually a member of the teaching staff
- a member of the governing body or established teaching staff at any of various universities or colleges
- a postgraduate student employed, esp for a fixed period, to undertake research and, often, to do some teaching
- a person in the same group, class, or condition
the surgeon asked his fellows
- ( as modifier )
a fellow sufferer
fellow students
- one of a pair; counterpart; mate
looking for the glove's fellow
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of fellow1
Idioms and Phrases
see regular guy (fellow) ; strange bedfellows .Example Sentences
His full potential wasn’t unleashed until the third game of last season, when he became a starter as part of a lineup change that involved moving fellow linebacker Oluwafemi Oladejo to edge rusher.
As an experienced London Marathon-er, does she have any words of wisdom for her fellow parliamentarian?
On Friday, businesswomen told the BBC that some fellow traders had been arrested on the second day of a ban imposed by Tanzania on all agricultural imports from Malawi and South Africa.
World leaders may be gathering on Saturday to pay their respects to a fellow statesman whose church has more members than their states have citizens.
Next to him, a fellow soldier scanned the sky with binoculars.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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