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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.)






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"Fellow" Quotes from Famous Books



... had an interview with your husband, whose sympathy did me both good and harm, for Streicher almost upset my resignation. God alone knows the result! but as I have always assisted my fellow-men when I had the power to do so, I also rely ...
— Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826 Vol. 2 • Lady Wallace

... fine gallop, old fellow," Vincent said, patting it; "and so have I. There's been nothing for you to lose your temper about, and the next road we come upon we will turn your face homeward. Half a dozen lessons like this, and then, no doubt, we ...
— With Lee in Virginia - A Story of the American Civil War • G. A. Henty

... spoke more to himself than to Johnny, but his recollections seemed agreeable; he nodded self-approvingly, and sometimes laughed aloud. At last he began to abuse Johnny for being, as he said, such a sneaking, cowardly fellow—such a treacherous, false-hearted gallows-bird. ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 • Various

... our preacher," he said, in the questioning affirmative of the deliberate country. "Well, he's quite a go-ahead young fellow; you never get up early enough to find him working in a cold collar. Maybe he's a mite ambitious, ...
— John Wesley, Jr. - The Story of an Experiment • Dan B. Brummitt

... show a man how to make a place for himself than to put him in one that some one else has made for him. The Negro who can make himself so conspicuous as a successful farmer, a large taxpayer, a wise helper of his fellow men, as to be placed in a position of trust and honor by natural selection, whether the position be political or not, is a hundredfold more secure in that position than one placed there by mere outside force or pressure. I know a Negro, Hon. Isaiah T. Montgomery, ...
— The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue • Various


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