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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



... was little more than an opportunity for some robustious periwig-pated fellow, or it gave the semi-learned actor the chance to conceal his imaginative incapacity by a display of "new readings." For ...
— Vanishing Roads and Other Essays • Richard Le Gallienne

... wrong, young fellow—I DID holler 'Tie 'im down.' But if you'd ever been around this outfit any you 'd have known I didn't mean it literal." He stopped and suddenly he laughed. "I've been yellin' 'Tie 'im down' for two years and more, when a critter breaks outa the bunch, and nobody ...
— Cow-Country • B. M. Bower

... with them a young fellow from Nautical Hall named John Stumpton, a handy lad who generally went by the name of Stump. Since Mont had arrived at the Hall, Stump had taken to him greatly, and would do almost anything that Mont asked of him. Stump was also ...
— The Wizard of the Sea - A Trip Under the Ocean • Roy Rockwood

... a disagreeable fellow," Sir Marmaduke said to himself, as he watched John Dormay ride slowly away through the park, "and, if it were not that he is husband to my cousin Celia, I would have nought to do with him. She is my only kinswoman, and, were aught to happen to Charlie, that ...
— A Jacobite Exile - Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden • G. A. Henty

... going to deny that Hugh's a fine fellow, Robin; but I remember, long ago, ay, thirteen or fourteen years past, before he entered on the regular buccaneering trade, there wasn't a firmer Cavalier amongst the whole of us Kentish men. Blazes! ...
— The Buccaneer - A Tale • Mrs. S. C. Hall


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