fellow
fel·low (fel′ō, fel′ə)
noun
- Obsolete a person who shares; partner or accomplice
- a companion; associate
- a person of the same class or rank; equal; peer
- either of a pair of corresponding things; mate
- a graduate student who holds a fellowship in a university or college
- a member of a learned society
- at some British and U.S. universities,
- a faculty member who is a member of the governing body
- a scholar, journalist, etc. who is appointed on a fellowship for a given period of research, teaching, or both
- Obsolete
- a person of a lower social class
- a coarse, rough man
- Informal
- a man or boy: often in familiar address
- a person; one a fellow must eat
- Informal a suitor; beau
Etymology: ME felaghe < Late OE feolaga, partner < feoh (see fee) + laga, a laying down (see law), after ON félagi: basic sense, “one laying down wealth for a joint undertaking”; fellowsenses , , , after L socius: see associate
adjective
- having the same ideas, position, work, etc.
- in the same condition; associated fellow workers
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