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Fellow   /fˈɛloʊ/   Listen
noun
Fellow  n.  
1.
A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer. "The fellows of his crime." "We are fellows still, Serving alike in sorrow." "That enormous engine was flanked by two fellows almost of equal magnitude." Note: Commonly used of men, but sometimes of women.
2.
A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man. "Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow."
3.
An equal in power, rank, character, etc. "It is impossible that ever Rome Should breed thy fellow."
4.
One of a pair, or of two things used together or suited to each other; a mate; the male. "When they be but heifers of one year,... they are let go to the fellow and breed." "This was my glove; here is the fellow of it."
5.
A person; an individual. "She seemed to be a good sort of fellow."
6.
In the English universities, a scholar who is appointed to a foundation called a fellowship, which gives a title to certain perquisites and privileges.
7.
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.
8.
A member of a literary or scientific society; as, a Fellow of the Royal Society. Note: Fellow is often used in compound words, or adjectively, signifying associate, companion, or sometimes equal. Usually, such compounds or phrases are self-explanatory; as, fellow-citizen, or fellow citizen; fellow-student, or fellow student; fellow-workman, or fellow workman; fellow-mortal, or fellow mortal; fellow-sufferer; bedfellow; playfellow; workfellow. "Were the great duke himself here, and would lift up My head to fellow pomp amongst his nobles."



verb
Fellow  v. t.  To suit with; to pair with; to match. (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Fellow" Quotes from Famous Books



... Don Philip mournfully. "Easy, my dear fellow, and you, Gascoigne, I am sorry that the feuds of our family should have brought you to such a dreadful death; but what can ...
— Mr. Midshipman Easy • Captain Frederick Marryat

... he said. "But, now you mention it, I can understand that I appear to be a simple sort of fellow in what is called Society here; and the reason, I suspect, is that it's not the society in which I have been accustomed to mix. The Farnabys are new to me, Rufus. When it comes to a question of my life at Tadmor, of what I saw and learnt and felt in the Community—then, ...
— The Fallen Leaves • Wilkie Collins

... greater numbers than before. This put the little man in a great passion, and, snatching up in his anger a bag of cloth, he brought it down with a merciless swoop upon them. When he raised it again he counted as many as seven lying dead before him with outstretched legs. "What a fellow you are!" said he to himself, astonished at his own bravery. "The whole town must hear of this." In great haste he cut himself out a band, hemmed it, and then put on it in large letters, "SEVEN AT ONE BLOW!" "Ah," said ...
— Grimm's Fairy Stories • Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm

... cannot afford to buy articles here; they are too dear for me. My stipend would not afford to pay for them.' '7571. Do you know if the same reason operates in the case of your fellow clergymen?-I don't know; but they have often spoken about it. In the first place, I hold the goods to be, as might be expected, inferior in quality to the goods I would like. I don't blame the merchants for not having goods of ...
— Second Shetland Truck System Report • William Guthrie

... Berbel with a twitch of the lips. 'You see I thought it best to believe you, and to treat you like an honest fellow. There ...
— Greifenstein • F. Marion Crawford


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