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fellow

[fel-oh]

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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.

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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.

10.

Obsolete. a partner.

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verb (used with object)

11.

to make or represent as equal with another.

12.

Archaic. to produce a fellow to; match.

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adjective

13.

belonging to the same class or group; united by the same occupation, interests, etc.; being in the same condition: fellow students; fellow sufferers.

Origin:
before 1050; Middle English felowe, felawe, late Old English fēolaga < Old Norse fēlagi partner in a joint undertaking, equivalent to fē money, property (cognate with Old English feoh, German Vieh) + -lagi bedfellow, comrade; akin to lair¹, lie²

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Example Sentences

The reaction of his fellow officers was also typical.

But a fellow employee disputed the programmer's claims and said the meetings he described never took place.

Plant your flags and stake out your turf now, my fellow technophiles.

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fellow (ˈfɛləʊ)

—n
1.	a man or boy
2.	an informal word for boyfriend
3.	informal one or oneself: a fellow has to eat
4.	a person considered to be of little importance or worth
5.	a. (often plural) a companion; comrade; associate
	b. (as modifier): fellow travellers
6.	(at Oxford and Cambridge universities) a member of the governing body of a college, who is usually a member of the teaching staff
7.	a member of the governing body or established teaching staff at any of various universities or colleges
8.	a postgraduate student employed, esp for a fixed period, to undertake research and, often, to do some teaching
9.	a. a person in the same group, class, or condition: the surgeon asked his fellows
	b. (as modifier): fellow students; a fellow sufferer
10.	one of a pair; counterpart; mate: looking for the glove's fellow

[Old English fēolaga, from Old Norse fēlagi, one who lays down money, from fē money + lag a laying down]

Fellow (ˈfɛləʊ)

—n
	a member of any of various learned societies: Fellow of the British Academy

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Word Origin & History

fellow

O.E. feolaga "partner," from O.N. felagi, from fe "money" + verbal base denoting "lay." Sense is of "one who puts down money with another in a joint venture." Used familiarly since M.E. for "man, male person," but not etymologically masculine. University senses (c.1449, corresponding to L. socius) evolved

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from notion of "one of the corporation who constitute a college" and who are paid from its revenues. Fellow-feeling (1613) attempted to translate L. compassio and Gk. sympatheia. First record of fellow-traveler in sense of "one who sympathizes with the Communist movement but is not a party member," is from 1936, translating Rus. poputchik.

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Idioms & Phrases

fellow

see regular guy (fellow); strange bedfellows.