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fel·low (fel′ō, fel′ə)

noun

  1. Obsolete a person who shares; partner or accomplice
  2. a companion; associate
  3. a person of the same class or rank; equal; peer
  4. either of a pair of corresponding things; mate
  5. a graduate student who holds a fellowship in a university or college
  6. a member of a learned society
  7. at some British and U.S. universities,
    1. a faculty member who is a member of the governing body
    2. a scholar, journalist, etc. who is appointed on a fellowship for a given period of research, teaching, or both
  8. Obsolete
    1. a person of a lower social class
    2. a coarse, rough man
  9. Informal
    1. a man or boy: often in familiar address
    2. a person; one a fellow must eat
  10. 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

  1. having the same ideas, position, work, etc.
  2. in the same condition; associated fellow workers

fellow Synonyms

fellow

n.

  1. A man or boy

    chap, guy*, youth*, lad*, person*, male*, gentleman*, stripling*, cadet*, señor (Spanish), Herr (German), garçon (French), adolescent*, teenager*, pubescent*, whippersnapper*, master*, beau*, juvenile*, youngster*, duffer*, kid*, cat*, codger*, geezer*, bloke* (British), squirt*, sprig*. *

  2. An associate

    peer, colleague, comrade; see associate, equal, friend 1.

  3. An academic or scholarly appointee

    assistant, associate, graduate, graduate student, scholar, licentiate, academician, tutor, master, gownsman, don, instructor, professor, lecturer, assistant professor, associate professor, docent, teaching assistant, TA*, research assistant, RA*, wrangler*, drudge*, agrégé (French), bachelor*, candidate*, doctor*, holder of a fellowship, member*, postdoc*.

fellow Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • elect: He was elected a Fellow of the College in 1900.
  • visit: In respect of each Senior Visiting Fellow the host institution will be required to provide a schedule of anticipated costs at the application stage.
  • appoint: Retired in 2001, and, soon after, appointed an Honorary Fellow in the School.
  • become: He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1996.

Preposition: at

  • cer: Hugo Brady is a research fellow at the CER.

Adjective modifier

  • honorary: Three-quarters of Council must be in favor for an Honorary Fellow to be elected.
  • postdoctoral: In addition, the group has a number of postdoctoral fellows working at any one time on various aspects of virology.
  • post-doctoral: As a post-doctoral research fellow, she is currently working on a number of publications based on her doctoral research.
  • professorial: Mick Moore is a Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.
  • Senior: They are headed by the Vice-Master, with the Senior Fellow at his left.
  • senior: Steven Everts is senior research fellow at the CER.

Modifies a noun

  • countryman: He was also the first to highlight the dangers of AIDS to his fellow countrymen.
  • traveler: In Pearl, Hawkins found a fellow artistic traveler, someone with similar exuberance.
  • citizen: They are designed to liberate the talents of millions of our fellow citizens who are not properly supported by the present rules.
  • sufferer: The group is run by a few unpaid volunteers and offers support to fellow sufferers.
  • inmate: However, the most recent adjudication, dated 13 December 2001, is for theft of tobacco from a fellow inmate 's cell.
  • struggler: Josh Simpson grabbed the winner as Millwall staged a second-half revival to earn a priceless three points against fellow strugglers Brighton.

Modifying Another Word

  • dear: Comments: I think you should be doing Web development work dear fellow!

Noun used with modifier

  • research: She was formerly a research fellow at the University of Sussex.
  • teaching: Currently her teaching fellow work includes further development of quality systems for the school.
fellow Quotes

We do not like the confiding, the intimate, the ingratiating, the hail-fellow-well-met, but prefer the unapproachable, the hard-bitten, the recalcitrant, the sinister, the malignant, the saturnine, the cross-grained and the cankered, and the howling wilderness to the amenities of civilization, the irascible to the affable, the prickly to the smooth.We have no damned fellow- feeling at all.

—Grieve

Well, maybe like Casy says, a fellowain't got a soul of his own, but on'ya piece of a big oneöan thenö† Then it don'matter. Then I'll be all aroun' in the dark. I'll be everywhereöwherever you look.Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.Wherever they's a cop beatin'up aguy,I'll bethere.If Casyknowed, why,I'll be inthewayguysyell whenthey'remad an'öI'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry an'they know supper's ready. An' when our folks eat the stuff they raise an' live in the houses they buildöwhy, I'll be there. See?

—Steinbeck,John Ernest

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.

—Congreve,William

Hail fellow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man.

—Swift,Jonathan

  'Tis ashard tobe a good fellow, a good friend, and a lover of women, as 'tistobe agood fellow, agood friend, and a lover of money.

—Wycherley,William

We were eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

—Rusk, (David) Dean

A child of eight is many-sided. By eighteen most of his auspicious angles have been polished away; he is

—Douglas, (George) Norman

Promisetoforgetthis fellowöto illiteratehim,Isay, quite from your memory.

—Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

—Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

Why, this fellow doesn't know any more about politics than a pig on Sunday.

—Truman, Harry S

In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow; Hast so much wit, and mirth, and spleen about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

—Addison,Joseph

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